First World War diaries go online
Around 300,000 pages of First World War unit diaries have been digitised, and will be available for "citizen historians" to read online from today at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
First World War diaries digitised for 'citizen historians'
Hundreds of thousands of pages of diaries from units from the First World War have been digitised and will be available to read online today.
The National Archives is publishing the first batch of unit diaries from France and Flanders as part of the organisations centenary programme.
The organisation is hoping that "citizen historians" will read the diaries to unearth new discoveries about life at war.
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