Wales and First World War by Nickglais : Part 1 – Northcliffe’s editorship of the Daily Mail in the run-up to the First World War, when the paper displayed "a virulent anti-German sentiment", led The Star to declare, "Next to the Kaiser, Lord Northcliffe has done more than any living man to bring about the war."

                                                                      Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922)

Now that were are approaching 2014 the 100th anniversary of the First World War we will publish a series of articles highlighting aspects of the First World War with reference to Wales, that still impact our lives in some way today, and we are starting