First World War Centenary News Archive

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial TeamArticles

First World War Centenary “likely to reawaken the ghosts of nationalism and highlight stark differences in how Europeans remember the conflict”

EurActiv publishes an article which argues the First World War Centenary is likely to "stir bad memories for fractured [Europe]".

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial TeamArticles

Centennial Countdown to the Great War: December 1913

A monthly blog documents events taking place 100 years ago.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial TeamArticles

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.

January 3, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Emilia-Romagna region of Italy prepares to commemorate First World War Centenary

A bill submitted at the end of 2013 seeks to “raise awareness & disseminate information about the events, people & places of memory associated with the First World War” in the Emilia-Romagna region.

January 4, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Irish Member of the European Parliament calls for Gaelic Athletic Association to mark Centenary

Séan Kelly, MEP for Ireland South, has called on the Gaelic Athletic Association to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

January 4, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Conference: ‘The Collapse of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies’, Vienna

A conference held at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, will examine the social and political causes for the collapse of two of the Central Powers.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

‘Martyrs’ Memorial March’: Turks commemorate Battle of Sarikamish

Thousands of Turks are taking part in a march which commemorates the First World War Battle of Sarikamish.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

‘Blackadder’ actor Sir Tony Robinson brands Education Secretary’s First World War comments “silly”

Sir Tony Robinson has branded comments by the Education Secretary that Blackadder is used to “feed myths” about the First World War by “left-wing academics” as “silly”.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Argument about the history of the First World War breaks out between British politicians

An argument about the history of the First World War has erupted between England’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove, and the Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt.

January 6, 2014 CN Editorial TeamNews

Mayor of London: the First World War “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression” and “the Left can’t bear to say so”

The Mayor of London has joined an ongoing argument amongst British politicians about the history of the First World War, in which he states the conflict “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression”.