Articles – Page 26 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Flanders Revisited. Highlights from ‘Lichtfront 2014’

Centenary News writer, Jillian Davidson, gives a personal account of her journey through Belgium as part of 'Lichtfront 2014', an interactive event following the Front Line as it existed at the time of the ceasefire in the autumn of 1914.

December 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Reflections on the Scarborough bombardment remembrance event

On Tuesday, 16th December 2014, the Centenary News editor attended the remembrance event in Scarborough, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the bombardment of the seaside town. Here's his personal reflections of his visit.

January 4, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Your Loving Son: The letters home of Cuthbert H T Lucas. What a difference a month makes

It took just a month for the realities of war to strike home for Captain Cuthbert Lucas. Here, in a third extract for Centenary News from his letters home, he describes the increasingly desperate conditions his 'Biscuit Boys' were facing.

January 14, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Reflections on three Boston World War One exhibitions

Susan Werbe has written a piece for Centenary News reflecting on three WWI exhibitions currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston Athenaeum; and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

January 21, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Campaign to recognise the sacrifice of Gallipoli reinforcements on torpedoed troopship

David Crampin has shared with Centenary News a piece about the ship Royal Edward which was torpedoed on its way to Gallipoli and his campaign to ensure those whoe died receive recognition.

January 26, 2015 CN Editorial Team

New First World War website reveals art and writing of German brothers

Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports from Germany on the discoveries which have inspired her to launch a new website devoted to the war experiences of the Kiefer brothers from Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe.

February 3, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Propaganda wares – Centenary News visits a Great War porcelain exhibition in Germany

A ceramics museum in Germany is holding an exhibition of First World War porcelain. CN writer, Katherine Quinlan-Flatter, was given a tour of the Keramikmuseum in Staufen, near Freiburg.

February 8, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘World War I: War of Images, Images of War’ exhibition showing at the Getty Center

CN writer, Jillian Davidson, visited the Getty Center in Los Angeles and gives an account of its centenary exhibition, 'World War I: War of Images, Images of War.'

February 12, 2015 CN Editorial Team

The first six months of the Centenary of the First World War: the story so far

The Centenary News Editor writes a personal blog looking back over the first 6 months of the Centenary of the First World War – and looking forward to the key events coming up in 2015.

March 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Jerusalem conference remembers the First World War and its impact on the Jewish world’

A conference “A World in Turmoil: World War I and its Impact on the Jewish World” has been held at Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem on February 26, 2015.