First World War Centenary News Archive

January 29, 2015 CN Editorial TeamResources

Commonwealth War Graves Commission releases new archive records to researchers

Archives relating to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have been made available to researchers and members of the public..

January 29, 2015 CN Editorial TeamResources

Villiers Park Educational Trust’s commemorates the First World War through extracts from CHIN-WAG Newsletter

The magazine reveals the lives of Old-Etonians and the Eton Manor Old Boys.

February 1, 2015 CN Editorial TeamEvents

Cobh, Ireland, commemorates the sinking of RMS Lusitania

The passenger liner Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915, will be remembered with a series of events in the Irish port of Cobh, starting on February 1st 2015.

End Date: 07 May 2015

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial TeamNews

British minister launches battlefields legacy project for schools

The British Government has launched a new project designed to encourage pupils who’ve visited the First World War battlefields to share their experiences with local communities.

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial TeamNews

Parliament of New South Wales presents new exhibition

The Parliament of New South Wales is marking the Centenary with a free public exhibition titled ‘Politics & Sacrifice: NSW Parliament and the Anzacs’, exploring the political aspects of the Great War.

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial TeamNews

New exhibition in Melbourne celebrating cinema during the First World War

To mark the Centenary, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), in association with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, will present ‘War Pictures: Australians at the Cinema 1914-1918’.

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial TeamNews

Centennial Countdown Blog Posting for January 2015

The latest Centennial Countdown posting by the American First World War blogger Dennis Cross – covering January 1915.

February 2, 2015 CN Editorial TeamNews

Conference in The Hague to restage Versailles Treaty talks

The controversial peace treaties which ended the First World War will be renegotiated by young people as part of an international conference in The Hague from June 22nd-26th 2015.

February 3, 2015 CN Editorial TeamFeatures

Propaganda wares – Centenary News visits a Great War porcelain exhibition in Germany

A ceramics museum in Germany is holding an exhibition of First World War porcelain. CN writer, Katherine Quinlan-Flatter, was given a tour of the Keramikmuseum in Staufen, near Freiburg.

Author: Katherine Quinlan-Flatter

February 3, 2015 CN Editorial TeamArticles

Propaganda wares – Centenary News visits a Great War porcelain exhibition in Germany

A ceramics museum in Germany is holding an exhibition of First World War porcelain. CN writer, Katherine Quinlan-Flatter, was given a tour of the Keramikmuseum in Staufen, near Freiburg.