Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about the Western Front Association East Coast symposium – a biannual meeting of the American WFA.
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UN agency calls for Centenary remembrance of lives lost at sea during First World War
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is marking the Centenary of the First World War with events focussing on remembrance and protection of shipwrecks.
Continue readingInternational historians to debate Sarajevo 1914 ‘the South Slav Question’ at Southampton University
Southampton University in the UK is marking the Centenary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination with an international conference from June 26-28 2014.
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Controversial statue of Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo
The Editor of Centenary News is in Sarajevo for the start of the First World War Centenary – and has just sent this update.
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Centenary Countdown: key dates coming up to mark 100th anniversary of the First World War
Centenary News lists the major commemorations taking place in July and August 2014 to mark the outbreak of the First World War 100 years ago.
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Tickets set to be released for Glasgow’s First World War Commonwealth Centenary commemoration
Tickets for a special ceremony in Glasgow to mark the Centenary of the First World War, with an emphasis on the Commonwealth, will be released to the general public on the 7th July 2013.
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Britain honours overseas recipients of the Victoria Cross
Britain has unveiled plaques commemorating 175 men from overseas who were awarded the UK’s highest military honour – the Victoria Cross – during the First World War.
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Centenary News in Brief: 21st – 27th June 2014
Centenary News in Brief this week includes: The namesakes of Blackadder’s First World War characters have been revealed in records from the conflict; Leicester’s Cenotaph is being restored for the Centenary; the US National World War I Museum’s Museum Archivist vists Vienna & Sarajevo; singer Lucy Ward marks the Centenary at the music festival Glastonbury.
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Historian Margaret MacMillan charts daily events leading up to the First World War for BBC Radio 4
On the eve of the centenary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, BBC Radio 4 is launching a daily programme charting the road to war in 1914.
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Events in Sarajevo mark the Centenary of the Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of the Archduke on June 28th 1914 was remembered today in series of events in Sarajevo.
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