A memorial to the Christmas truce, inspired by friendship between pupils from British and German schools, will be inaugurated in the Belgian town of Messines (Mesen) on December 6th 2014.
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The World War I in Africa Project: A visual exploration of an overlooked history
'The World War I in Africa Project' has been launched to provide information on one of the most overlooked theatres of the war: Africa.
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New mobile Apps to commemorate Centenary
There are two new smartphone apps designed to guide users in finding sites of remembrance and discovering stories of the First World War.
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100 years ago: Battle of Łodz on the Eastern Front
German and Russian troops fought a prolonged battle near the Polish city of odz in November 1914 as winter was setting in on the Eastern Front.
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Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring 460 First World War soldiers
The story of a small Punjab village’s significant contribution to the British war effort in 1914-18 is being brought to a wider audience for the Centenary.
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Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring WW1 soldiers who fought for Britain
A cannon displayed in the Pakistani village of Dulmial honours 460 soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War. Dr Irfan Malik and Michael Noble tell the remarkable story.
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Dulmial: the Pakistani ‘village with the gun’ honouring WW1 soldiers who fought for Britain
A cannon displayed in the Pakistani village of Dulmial honours 460 soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War. Dr Irfan Malik and Michael Noble tell the remarkable story.
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Volunteers wanted to track down ‘lost’ UK Great War munitions factories
Historian and broadcaster, Dan Snow, is calling on people around Britain to help find the sites of ‘missing’ First World War munitions factories which employed thousands of women.
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First World War Exhibition opens at National Library of Ireland
An exhibition has opened at the National Library of Ireland, in Dublin, running from November 2014 until the end of centenary events in 2018, which reveals the impact of the First World War in Ireland.
Continue readingConference: ‘Living War; Thinking Peace: Women’s experiences, feminist thought and international relations’, Venice
The online journal DEP: Deportees, Exiles, Refugees is organising an international conference on women during the First World War.
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