Articles – Page 17 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown to the Great War: January 1914

A monthly blog documents events taking place 100 years ago.

February 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

”We Saved the World: World War One and America’s Rise as a Superpower’

An article in Spiegel Online examines the United States' entry into the First World War and how America was elevated to superpower status.

February 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Education in Germany before and after the First World War

Centenary News contributor Claire Wotherspoon reports on the education system in Germany before the First World War and how it was changed by the conflict

February 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Cabbage soup again’ – the hardships & resilience of men held in Germany’s Ruhleben prison camp

Elgin Strub-Ronayne writes for Centenary News about the story of how more than 5,000 mainly British men spent the entire four years of the First World War held captive in the heart of Germany.

February 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

What does the British Council’s report on global understandings of the First World War say?

Centenary News highlights the key findings of the British Council's 'Remember the World as well as the War' report on understandings of the global dimesnion of the First World War.

February 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The first Blitz: German Zeppelin raids on London during the First World War

Centenary News contributor Dan Hayes reports on the First World War Zeppelin air raids that brought terror to London in 1915 and 1916.

February 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Do Wilfred Owen’s poems mask the “true fighting spirit” of those who fought?

Postgraduate poetry student Christian Groves asks whether seeing the First World War through Wilfred Owen's poems masks the true fighting spirit and patriotic passion of those who fought.

February 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Letters written by students from First World War battlefields to their professor exhibited

Mike Swain reports on a new exhibition of letters – written by students to their professor during the First World War – which is being held at the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library.

February 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Website explores First World War stories from the German town of Ettlingen

Stories of First World War soldiers from a small town in Germany are being rediscovered by a local website, as Centenary News' Peter Alhadeff explains.

March 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Hidden Great War battlefield training site found on England’s South Coast

A practice battlefield used to train soldiers before they were sent to the Western Front has been discovered in Hampshire, reports Peter Alhadeff.