The British Library and the University of Antwerp host a three day conference concerning 'Languages and the First World War'.
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Lord Parekh: “British Expeditionary Force was no match for the Germans and so Britain immediately turned to India for help”
Lord Bhikhu Parekh, a peer in the British House of Lords, has delivered a speech at Asia House about India’s contribution to the First World War, which he described as “greater than the rest of the Commonwealth put together”.
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Facing the Front: New Zealand’s Enduring First World War
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery has opened a new exhibition featuring objects and paintings relating to the First World War.
Continue readingLeading European archivists in London to discuss their First World War exhibitions
First World War exhibitions commissioned from the archives of leading European libraries will be discussed at a public event hosted by the Institut Français in London on 19th June 2014.
Continue readingConference: ‘The Position of the First World War in the History of Europe’, Sarajevo
A major international conference about the First World War will see 120 scholars from 28 countries meet in Sarajevo in 2014.
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New beers to commemorate First World War Centenary
In a project to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War, twelve beers will be brewed over the five year period to 2019.
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Centenary News in Brief: 14th – 20th June 2014
Centenary News in Brief this week includes: Watford Football Club’s new away kit marks the Centenary; the only Australian horse to return from the First World War is honoured; America’s World War One Historical Association will mark the Archduke’s assassination; and the National Memorial Arboretum in England will hold a First World War poetry evening.
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Sex and the Somme. Soldiers visited brothels to escape the “lunatic world of war.”
Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled “Sex and the Somme” about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.
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Education in Germany before and after the First World War – part two
Centenary News contributor Claire Wotherspoon continues her series on German education with an article on what happened in schools after the First World War
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Sex and the Somme. Soldiers visited brothels to escape the “lunatic world of war.”
Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled "Sex and the Somme" about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.
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