Articles – Page 22 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New York Historical Society marks Centenary of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Dr. Jillian Davidson writes about the impact of the First World War on the Jews and expresses her opinions on the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

July 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Model project to remember every First World War serviceman from East Belfast

Historian Jason Burke writes for Centenary News about a project to compile a database of every serviceman from East Belfast who served in the First World War and the hope it will be a model for others.

July 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown to the Great War: June 1914

A monthly blog by Dennis Cross documents events taking place 100 years ago.

July 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The IWM First World War Galleries – Centenary News attends official opening event

Centenary News attends the official opening of the Imperial War Museum’s new galleries on Wednesday 16th July – an event marked by speeches and interviews in the new IWM atrium.

July 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Keeping Post: The Post Office during the First World War

Sally Wenham, who writes for the Post Office shop blog, reveals the First World War research she has been doing to coincide with the release of a selection of coins and stamps.

July 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Punch magazine digital archive will help researchers study First World War

Mike Swain reports on a new digital archive which sees 150 years of British satirical magazine Punch made available online including its' influential period during the First World war.

July 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Your Loving Son: The Letters Home of Cuthbert H T Lucas 1914 – 1918

History teacher Steve Warburton begins a series of articles, based on the diaries and weekly letters home of Cuthbert H T Lucas, which reveal a unique perspective on the First World War from beginning to end.

July 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Reuters revisits Sarajevo: “World War One. What were they thinking?”

A report from a Reuters Newsmaker Event in New York, planned and moderated by Sir Harold Evans, and attended by former U.S Secretaries of State Dr Henry Kissinger and Dr Madeleine Albright.

July 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The Story of John Miller Coutts Weir, M.M.,M.C – a family hero

Centenary News contributor Ottilia Saxl tells the story of her great-uncle John Miller Coutts Weir, who was awarded both the Military Medal in 1916 and Military Cross in 1917 and served in all three services.

July 30, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News looks ahead to new BBC drama following British soldiers in action on the Western Front

The BBC is dramatising three key moments for British troops fighting on the Western Front in a drama series starting in August 2014 to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Peter Alhadeff reports.