Talk: Ring of Fire - A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War
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Talk: Ring of Fire - A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War

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Thursday, 18 June 2026, 20:30 – 22:00

The Royal Logistic Corps Museum

Connaught Road, Worthy Down, Winchester

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20:30 – 22:00

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Ring of Fire As war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations had to be mobilised, and neutrality was impossible. The scale of destruction was unfathomable and no life was left unchanged. Our understanding of this complex conflict has been coloured by a blinkered approach to popular history. It has ignored the fact that Denmark actively participated in laying minefields as soon as war began; that the first British shots were fired in West Africa, by a black man; and that the first Australian casualties occurred not at Gallipoli, but in the Pacific. In this engaging evening talk, Alex explores her latest book – Ring of Fire: A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War – co-authored by Nicolai Eberholst. The authors of this radical new history have scoured the globe in search of an enormous quantity of fresh material. This is not history told by ‘great men’, this is a people’s view of the war. Eyewitness accounts translated from more than a dozen languages break new ground to reveal an inclusive, touching and surprising tale of events we thought we knew. Alex Churchill A Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, Alex is a full-time author and television historian specialising in military, royal and maritime history. Primarily Alex focuses on the First World War, but she has been known to dabble in the Second World War.

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