From the NS archive: The execution of Erskine Childers
2 December 1922: Why I would not sign the petition to save my friend from the firing squad.
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From the NS archive: August the Fourth
8 August 1914: Why did a declaration of war make people in a way unusually happy?
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From the archive: Desmond MacCarthy’s diary “August the Fourth” on the outbreak of the First World War
The Bloomsbury-group writer and critic describing the night the First World War began for Britain, observes the madness in…
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