Articles – Page 21 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

World Heritage Tourism Research Network holds First World War Symposium in Halifax

Dr. Jillian Davidson reports for Centenary News on a symposium held in Halifax, Canada, about how the First World War is remembered in the 21st century.

June 11, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Opinion: The True Causes of World War One discussed for Centenary News

Alan Paton writes for Centenary News in an opinion article which explores the "true causes of World War One", analysing the roles which all the major powers played.

June 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Popular cartoons give a different insight into attitudes towards First World War

Mike Swain reports on an exhibition of popular First World War cartoons in London which reveals a different insight into the attitudes of people to the war on the battlefield and at home.

June 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Pilot’s diaries reveal a bond between First World War enemies

Heather Payton writes for Centenary News about an extraordinary example of First World War cooperation between British and German troops, uncovered by research in Wales.

June 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Giant photographs of pebble reflect “traumatised” landscape of war

Mike Swain visits Orford Ness nature reserve on the British Suffolk coast to see an exhibition of unusual photographs by installation artist Anya Gallaccio of a pebble picked from a bombing range.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Sex and the Somme. Soldiers visited brothels to escape the “lunatic world of war.”

Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled "Sex and the Somme" about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Education in Germany before and after the First World War – part two

Centenary News contributor Claire Wotherspoon continues her series on German education with an article on what happened in schools after the First World War

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War

An article in The Diplomat explores the role of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the First World War.

June 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The Western Front Association East Coast Branch convenes its first event of the Centenary

Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about the Western Front Association East Coast symposium – a biannual meeting of the American WFA.

July 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘If the U.S. Had Not Entered World War I, Would There Have Been a World War II?’

An article in New Republic considers the implications of America's entry into the First World War and the potential role this played in causing the Second World War.