Features – Page 10 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Conference kicks off interest in commemorating America’s role in World War One

Allison Finkelstein writes about a kickoff Centennial Trade Show and conference which brought together people interested in commemorating America’s involvement in World War 1

Author: Allison Finkelstein

August 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Unknown Warriors: British nurse’s ‘unflinching’ view of the front line

Author Tim Luard reports on a newly republished book of wartime letters home written by his great-aunt, who served as a nurse on the Western Front.

Author: Tim Luard

August 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Photographer Jeff Gusky explores the Western Front’s underground cities

Centenary News volunteer writer Christopher J. Harvie is moved by haunting images of the Western Front underground captured by the American doctor and photographer, Jeff Gusky.

Author: Christopher J Harvie

August 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Candles burn for the Centenary in the Bevis Marks Synagogue

Dr Jillian Davidson has filed this personal account of how a Synagogue in London marked the Lights Out commemeration event on August 4th 2014.

Author: Dr Jillian Davidson

August 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Reflections on remembrance in Mons, 100 years after the battle

Journalist Pat Sweet offers her personal view of two days of events remembering the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Mons.

Author: Pat Sweet

September 11, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The War in Small Town Canada – a report from Burlington, Ontario

A lecture series for the Burlington Historical Society, in Ontario, Canada, looks back at the beginning of WWI. Centenary News writer Christopher J Harvie attended the opening of the series event – and sent this report.

Author: Christopher J Harvie

September 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

“From Flanders Fields” resurrects the writers of the trenches in New York

Flanders House New York and the Arts in the Armed Forces organised a commemorative arts event on August 4th 2014. Josef Goodman went to the performance, and has written this report for Centenary News.

Author: Josef Goodman

September 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Perspectives on War, Memory and Peace at Queen Mary College London

Dr Jillian Davidson attended the “Perspectives on the Great War”, an international conference held at Queen Mary, University of London in August 2014 – and has sent this report.

Author: Dr Jillian Davidson

September 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

It’s Still Quiet… An article about a new graphic novel based on “All Quiet on The Western Front”

The legacy of one of the First World War’s best known pieces of literature has been re-imagined in a stark new way. Article by CN writer Christopher J Harvie.

Author: Christopher J Harvie

October 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

L’Adieu aux Armes – Roubaix remembers First World War with 4-year art show

Centenary News Deputy Editor, Peter Alhadeff, visits the French city of Roubaix for the launch of a series of art exhibitions, dedicated to the First World War, in a former art deco swimming pool.