The trenches were rediscovered at the Ministry of Defence's Browndown site in 2011 First World War practice trenches that were lost beneath heathland for decades have been granted heritage ...

The Yorkshire Trench, near Ypres, was built and occupied in 1915 by soldiers from the county. It was rediscovered in the 1990s when amateur archaeologists found the bodies of about 200 soldiers there.

Historian Dan Snow explains to Michael Douglas how the near stalemate of trench warfare in WW1 was relieved by the introduction of tanks, aircraft and shells. We see how protection was provided ...