Top stories published by Century Magazine in May of 2015

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David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

May 5, 2015

For those in peril on the sea

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE. Allied losses, already prodigious in at least three theatres of war, were augmented by the loss on 7 May of the RMS Lusitania. It was a catastrophe which has spawned myths in generous quantity. The first of these was that the greatest loss of life it…

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

May 25, 2015

I cannot pray

AFTER THE HORROR of the Quintinshill train crash in Scotland the previous week which had seen the deaths of 214 soldiers, en route to Gallipoli, the British might have been forgiven for feeling they were owed a bit of good luck in the days which followed. If so, they were to be disappointed. At 11.15am…

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

May 11, 2015

The dog it was that died

AFTER THE LUSITANIA was sunk, the British public turned seriously nasty. Life for Germans who remained in Britain, and even for those merely suspected of harbouring sympathy for them, became dangerous. Shops, especially bakers and barbers, were sacked and looted and Germans were…

David Hargreaves in Century Magazine

May 23, 2015

Do your worst

THE ASQUITH GOVERNMENT in Britain had exhausted its political capital. Reasons usually advanced for this include the so-called ‘Shells crisis’, the Prime Minister’s infatuation with his daughter’s best friend, and his apparent inability to stay quite sober until the sun had passed over the yardarm.