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Volunteers & Conscripts

Does your country have the right to compel you to do military service? Because 100 years ago – and for the very first time – the UK government crossed that line. Explore this theme through the resources below.

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Create Your Own Somme Centenary Display

Create Your Own Somme Centenary Display

Do You Enlist? - Interactive Video

Do You Enlist? - Interactive Video

Right to Make You Fight? – Panel Discussion

Right to Make You Fight? – Panel Discussion

The Story of Conscription

The Story of Conscription

Easter Rising 1916

Easter Rising 1916

Somme 1916

Somme 1916

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