Artistic Responses to Conflict

There were a wide variety of types and styles of art that were created during and after the First World War. Songs, stories, poems, and paintings were created by people reflecting on their experiences.


Poet Tom Kettle

©Francis Ledwidge Museum

War Certificates


©National Portrait Gallery, London

© IWM ART 2989

©2015 estate of Barbara Bruce Littlejohn


Rob Heard and the Shrouds of the Somme