The technology of the computer app is being harnessed to explore the works of the First World War poet, Wilfred Owen, in the Centenary year of the conflict.
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Book Review – Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
Publisher’s description: “Secret Warriors provides an invaluable and fresh history of the First World War, profiling a number of key figures who made great leaps in science for the benefit of 20th Century Britain. Told in a lively narrative style, Secret Warriors reveals the unknown side of the war.”Centenary News Review: “Downing provides a fascinating glimspe into the scientific front of the First World War.”
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Centenary News speaks to Taylor Downing, author of ‘Secret Warriors’
Centenary News' Books Editor, Eleanor Baggley, speaks to author Taylor Downing about his latest publication, Secret Warriors.
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New computer app to explore Wilfred Owen’s First World War poetry
The technology of the computer app is being harnessed to explore the works of the First World War poet, Wilfred Owen, in the Centenary year of the conflict.
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Margaret MacMillan Lecture: 1914 was the “perfect storm” of circumstances for war, but conflict was not inevitable
Margaret MacMillan has delivered the Boeing Commemorative Lecture 2014 at the Australian War Memorial, where she argued that the First World War was not inevitable and that the origins of the conflict still “haunt us”.
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Lusitania was carrying First World War explosives from New York when sunk in May 1915, British files reveal
The passenger ship Lusitania was carrying munitions when it was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915, documents released by the British Government have revealed.
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UK and German Ambassadors take part in remembrance of First World War Zeebrugge Raid
The British and German Ambassadors to Belgium have attended commemorations marking the 96th anniversary of the Royal Navy’s Zeebrugge Raid during the First World War.
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Margaret MacMillan Lecture: Choice or accident? The outbreak of the First World War
Margaret MacMillan has delivered the Boeing Commemorative Lecture 2014 at the Australian War Memorial, where she argued that the First World War was not inevitable.
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Margaret MacMillan Lecture: Choice or accident? The outbreak of the First World War
Margaret MacMillan has delivered the Boeing Commemorative Lecture 2014 at the Australian War Memorial, where she argued that the First World War was not inevitable and that the origins of the conflict still "haunt us".
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Largest human poppy to mark First World War Centenary breaks Guinness World Record
Members of the local community in Hampshire, England, joined staff and students at the Sixth Form College Farnborough to create a human poppy to mark the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
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