Articles – Page 29 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

The Lusitania – a viewpoint article from Lusitania Online

Mitch Peeke has sent in the following comment article for Centenary News – which summarises his views on the sinking of the Lusitania. Mitch is a founder member of the Lusitania Online website.

June 11, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Canadian historians warn against reviving First World War ‘myths’

A group of Canadian historians, writing in the ChonicleHerald newspaper, have warned against reinvigorating 'myths of militarism and monarchism' during Canada's Centenary commemorations.

June 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: Australian War Memorial: the remarkable rise of the nation’s secular shrine

The Guardian's Paul Daley talks to the Director of the Australian War Memorial about 'the rise of the nation's secular shrine'.

June 16, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘Isonzo: a brutal first world war front’

An article in Geographical looks at the brutal Isonzo Front, and the topographical elements that made the often overlooked campaign here so uniquely difficult.

July 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Undeveloped First World War negatives discovered in German library archives

Centenary News writer, Katherine Quinlan-Flatter, describes how her research into the life of a young German doctor at the Western Front has led her to rediscover an undeveloped film of the last days of the war in a German archive.

July 28, 2015 CN Editorial Team

The ‘Mothers of the Missing’ and the unveiling of the Menin Gate in 1927

The 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate in July 2015, reminded Dr Viv Newman of the unveiling ceremonies held in Ypres on July 24th 1927. In an article for Centenary News, she explains how one very special group attended the unveiling.

August 13, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Call to remember soldiers lost on Gallipoli troopship ‘Royal Edward’ 100 years ago today

David Crampin renews his call for recognition of more than 860 British soldiers who died when the troopship Royal Edward was torpedoed by a German U-boat on August 13th 1915.

August 21, 2015 CN Editorial Team

WW1 photographer Jeff Gusky reveals his new pictures of the hidden Somme

Jeff Gusky has shared with Centenary News his latest remarkable pictures of underground inscriptions carved by First World War soldiers fighting on the Somme a century ago. Dr Gusky spoke to CN Deputy Editor Peter Alhadeff.

October 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Ernest Hemingway: new exhibition in New York shows writer’s World War 1 connections

An exhibition about the work of Ernest Hemingway has opened in New York – at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. Centenary News writer Jillian Davidson visited the exhibition, and describes how the First World war had a major impact on the writer.

October 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

BBC TV documentary explores the Somme with rugby player Gareth Thomas

In July 2015, Centenary News was contacted by a TV company researching a documentary about Mametz Wood. Katherine Quinlan-Flatter with Louise Bray descibe how this led to one of Katherine's German contacts being interviewed for the programme.