After an introduction, this article follows a broadly chronological framework, describing the interaction of the political, social, economic and military events that made up the British experience of the war. Due to recent historical discoveries and changes in methodology, it is now possible to summarise these previously largely separated themes of the British war experience in relation to each other, which is how they were actually experienced at the time. Even for such a well-documented country, there are also genuine problems with the survival and interpretation of evidence. But partly because of its size and evolution, this has been mostly separated into studies of British politics and the grand strategy of the war the social, economic and cultural history of Great Britain or the military and naval history of the British war effort. There is an extremely large history of Great Britain’s experience of the First World War.
