CN Editorial Team – Page 196 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘The Unknown Warrior’ locomotive project steams towards target

A UK charity raising money to build a memorial steam locomotive has reached the £1 million mark in the Centenary year of the First World War.

November 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Update: UK watchdog rules out inquiry into supermarket Christmas truce advert

Britain’s advertising regulator decides there are no grounds for launching an investigation into a Sainsbury’s supermarket advert featuring the First World War Christmas truce.

November 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Manchester Art Gallery exhibitions to commemorate First World War

Two new exhibitions have been launched at Manchester Art Gallery to mark the First World War Centenary: 'The Sensory War 1914-2014' and 'Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War'.

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December 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Christmas truce: countdown to Centenary events in December 2014

Centenary News previews events coming up in December 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas truce on the Western Front.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Bridge of Weir Memorial Society launches new website

The Bridge of Weir Memorial Society has launched a new website to tell the stories of the 72 young men whose names are commemorated on war memorials in their village in west Scotland.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Double honours for First World War soldier’s story at IWM film awards

A film re-imagining the letters sent home by a British First World War soldier as a series of tweets has won two awards at the Imperial War Museum’s 2014 Short Film Festival.

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

An article about the International Speaker Series with the Canadian War Museum

Centenary News writer, Christopher Harvie, spoke with Dr Andrew Burtch, Acting Director of Research for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa to discuss the museum’s International Speaker Series, an initiative giving different perspectives to the history of the First World War.

Author: Christopher Harvie

December 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

An article about the International Speaker Series with the Canadian War Museum

Centenary News writer, Christopher Harvie, spoke with Dr Andrew Burtch, Acting Director of Research for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa to discuss the museum's International Speaker Series, an initiative giving different perspectives to the history of the First World War.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Duke of Edinburgh opens ‘First World War in the Air’ at the RAF Museum, London

A new exhibition exploring the rapid growth of air power during the First World War was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh today (December 2nd 2014) at the Royal Air Force Museum in London.

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery: ‘The Sensory War’ and ‘Heaven in a Hell of War’

Two new exhibitions have been launched at Manchester Art Gallery to mark the First World War Centenary: ‘The Sensory War 1914-2014’ and ‘Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War’.