The Royal Museum of the Army and Military History in Brussels has opened a major exhibition to mark the Centenary of the First World War.
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Lecture: Rosenberg and Sassoon
A talk by Dr. Jean Moorcroft Wilson about First World War poets Rosenberg and Sassoon will form part of Jewish Book Week 2014.
Continue reading‘The Great War in Portraits’ exhibition, The National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery in London will be holding an exhibition – The Great War in Portraits.
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British Library hosts: ‘The First World War: The Debate’
The British Library has organised a debate focusing on the First World War in light of the upcoming Centenary, with a panel of academics discussing the conflict.
Continue reading‘Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality’ workshop, University of London
The British Association for Local History and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies are organising a workshop about the First World War.
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Sir Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson: Was Britain right to fight in World War One?
As part of the BBC’s World War One season to mark the Centenary, historians Sir Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson have laid out different viewpoints on Britain’s role in the conflict.
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German MP calls lack of plans to mark the First World War Centenary a “scandal”
Sevim Dadelen, MP for the German political party Die Linke – ‘The Left’ – has criticised Germany for a lack of plans to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.
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Exploring the human face of the First World War at London’s National Portrait Gallery
A special exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores the horror and tragedy of the First World War in the faces of those who fought and died.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Publisher’s Description: “In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches”.
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Journey’s End
Publisher’s Description: “Set in the First World War, Journey’s End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed…”
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