CN Editorial Team – Page 183 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The UK Guardian marks the centenary with an online interactive documentary

The Guardian online First World War documentary, published in 2014, is available in 7 different languages, with the voices of 10 historians from across the world.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The UK National Archives releases interactive online map to reveal the global reach of the First World War

Launched in the summer of 2014, First World War: A Global View, is part of UK’s National Archives’ ongoing Centenary programme. First World War 100 is designed to help members of the public search through First World War records.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Light Front 14’ – Torchlight remembrance of the Western Front in Belgium

Thousands of flaming torches will light up the former Western Front in Belgium on October 17th 2014, commemorating the line as it stood 100 years ago.

October 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Latest news from ‘Light Front’ – Belgium remembers the Centenary by torchlight

Centenary News reports from ‘Light Front’, the torchlight event in Western Flanders on October 17th 2014, remembering the First World War battles which engulfed the region 100 years ago.

October 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Sikh and Commonwealth soldiers remembered at Leicester University

Sikh and Commonwealth soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War will be remembered in a lecture series at Leicester University on October 18th 2014.

October 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Human chain to remember France’s ‘forgotten front’

A human chain will line up across former battlefields in Northern France on October 18th 2014 to highlight a 'forgotten front' of the First World War.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Menin Gate Lions arrive at Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders’ exhibition

Australia’s Menin Gate Lions have been unveiled at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, where they will feature in a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: First Battle of Ypres starts

The historic Belgian town of Ypres became the focus of a protracted battle between the Allied and German armies in the latter half of October 1914.

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie

CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’, the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,’ a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

Author: Christopher J. Harvie

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie

CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses 'Menin Gate at Midnight', the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for 'Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,' a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.