First World War Centenary News Archive

December 30, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Truce Tournament held at National World War I Museum, Kansas City

The National World War I Museum in Kansas held a ‘Truce Tournament’ to commemorate the 1914 ‘Christmas Truce’.

December 30, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Campaign for statue of Canadian General Sir Arthur Currie to mark Centenary receives funding boost

A campaign to erect a statue of the first Canadian general to lead Canadians in the First World War has received a $50,000 boost.

December 30, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

‘The Avant-Gardes At War’ exhibition, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

The Bundeskunsthalle in Germany is holding an exhibition about modern art in the context of the First World War.

December 31, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Austrian National Library to mark First World War Centenary

The Austrian National Library will mark the Centenary of the First World War with a large scale digitisation project and a major exhibition.

December 31, 2013 CN Editorial TeamResources

Austrian National Library online newspaper archive

The Austrian National Library provides online access to over 840,000 pages from magazines and newspapers from 1914-1918.

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

BBC explores the radio programme which inspired Oh, What a Lovely War

A forgotten musical documentary which inspired the satirical First World War stage show Oh, What a Lovely War is rediscovered in a BBC Radio 4 programme.

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Is Britain’s new First World War Centenary coin “too jingoistic”?

The British newspaper The Daily Mail has highlighted the “backlash” on social media about a new coin featuring Lord Kitchener to mark the Centenary.

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

National Museums Scotland unveils First World War Centenary programme

National Museums Scotland has announced its First World War Centenary programme.

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial TeamArticles

Michael Morpurgo writes about the Centenary: “We should honour those who died… but we should never glorify”

Writing in The Guardian, the author of War Horse writes about his own family connections to the First World War and why he believes there should be no "glorification" of the conflict during the Centenary.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial TeamFeatures

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News’ Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

Author: Peter Alhadeff