Photographer Michael St Maur Sheil will be talking about his First World War exhibition, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 14-18, at Stowe School, near Buckingham in the UK, on Tuesday May 12th 2015.
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Talbot House appeals for wartime photos of the Poperinge ‘Every Man’s Club’
Talbot House is appealing for wartime photos of the ‘home from home’ created for WW1 British soldiers in Belgium as part of its 2015 Centenary.
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New York event commemorates ‘In Flanders Fields’
Flanders House in New York held an event on 12 May 2015 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of John McCrae writing his poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
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Diana Preston speaks to Centenary News about the Lusitania, chemical warfare and Zeppelin attacks
Author Diana Preston discusses her new book A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare, with Centenary News' Ashlee Godwin.
Continue readingLondon lecture examines lessons of 1918 flu pandemic
The influenza pandemic which spread across the world with devastating results in the final months of the Great War is discussed at a lecture in London on May 13th 2015.
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Thousands who refused to take up arms remembered online by IWM
The names of 16,500 conscientious objectors were added to the Imperial War Museum’s Centenary memorial website today (May 15th 2015) – International Conscientious Objectors Day.
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Tribute to mark 30,000th Last Post at the Menin Gate – July 2015
A global tribute is planned to accompany the 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate, Ypres, on July 9th 2015.
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‘The Dreamers’ – new musical tribute to soldiers lost at sea off Gallipoli
A musical telling the story of a British officer and his soldiers who drowned at sea on their way to Gallipoli is being brought to the London stage in summer 2015.
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Book and website on extraordinary letters from the First World War
An author from Kent in the UK, Aura Hargreaves, has compiled a book and website featuring the letters sent between her grandfather, a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and his fiancee – written between 1915 and 1919.
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Book and website on extraordinary letters from the First World War
An author from Kent in the UK, Aura Hargreaves, has compiled a book and website featuring the letters sent between her grandfather, a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and his fiancee – written between 1915 and 1919.
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