First World War Centenary News Archive

March 17, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Welsh experiences of the First World War roadshow

The Welsh experience of World War I is half way through a roadshow which encourages people to share objects, documents or items of interest from the First World War.

March 17, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Search for location of Gallipoli war cemeteries underway

World Bulletin reports that efforts are underway to locate 18 soldier cemeteries in Turkey used by Entente forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16.

March 17, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Heritage Lottery Fund grants Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum almost £500,000

The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, England, has been awarded £493,300 in Heritage Lottery funding, in part for initiatives to help mark the Centenary of the First World War.

March 17, 2013 CN Editorial TeamOrganisations

Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada

Memorial University, Canada, is a “living memorial to those Newfoundlanders who fought and died in the First World War”.

March 18, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Professor Sir Hew Strachan tells conference of hopes for “re-appreciation of the First World War as a global phenomenon” by 2018

Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Oxford University, emphasises the importance of the First World War as a “global phenomenon”.

March 18, 2013 CN Editorial TeamArticles

The history of memory and the Battle of Guise

An article featured in the En Envor, Revue d'histoire contemporaine en Bretagne explores the history of, and memories surrounding, the Battle of Guise in 1914.

March 18, 2013 CN Editorial TeamResources

Podcast exploring the experiences of German internees in First World War Britain

BBC History Magazine Online (History Extra) releases a podcast which includes an interview with Panikos Panayi who analyses the experiences of German internees in Britain during the First World War.

March 19, 2013 CN Editorial TeamNews

Centenary events at the Museum of the Great War, France

The Museum of the Great War in France will hold annual temporary exhibitions during 2014-2018 to commemorate the Centenary.

End Date: 15 Mar 2013

March 19, 2013 CN Editorial TeamResources

Latest Featured Resource: ‘Children in the Posters of the Great War’

'Children in the Posters of the Great War', from the private collection of Pierre Grezard, has been made available by Mission Centenaire 14-18.

March 19, 2013 CN Editorial TeamOrganisations

The Society for Military History

The Society for Military History is based in the United States of America and describes itself as “the intellectual home for military historians worldwide”.