A decade ago during the Great War centenary, the BBC released a three-part drama about the First World War.

Our World War told the story of the conflict from Mons to the Som to Amia in 1918.

Ten years on, what does it tell us about the Great War and is it a series that is still relevant today?

It's hard to believe that the Great War centenary began more than a decade ago.

I remember author John Giles and founder of the Western Fund Association

talking about this in the 1980s and what it might mean to ensure that the subject, the wider

subject of the First World War, did not slip from public consciousness because he was

acutely aware that by the time of that centenary,

all of the veterans, the men that he'd known for all of his life and respected so greatly,

they would all be gone. And that's what people feared back then because they could see that

generation of veterans already fading.

The First World War in the 1980s was very much a kind of niche subject.

Very few people were visiting the battlefields.

What did the future hold?

But for John Giles, and so many in that early phase of the history of the Western Front Association

were looking ahead to this

centenary period and saw it as a promise of greatness. And we've lived through it now. Many of you

will have been involved in Great War Centenary projects. And while there were many good and bad

aspects of that centenary, and some organisations made more of it than others, the good thing a decade on from it is that the Great War is just as vivid, just as important, and continuing to engage people young and old.

And while there may not be the massive level of visitors

to the battlefields that were seen between 2014 and 2018,

that does not mean that there are not thousands of people visiting

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