Students think they know how WW1 soldiers felt. They don't

By Betty Jay. If we want to get close to the truth, we should widen our reading of the period's literature. I often reflect on how knowledge is communicated from one generation to another. For many of my students at Royal Holloway, University of London, ideas about what the war means are already fixed because they have encountered Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, poets whose voices have come to stand for a whole generation. Read more...