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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.’
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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.
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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.
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Britain pays tribute to First World War Victoria Cross winners from overseas
First World War holders of the Victoria Cross born overseas are remembered on 145 commemorative paving stones, unveiled at the UK’s National Memorial Arboretum in 2015. Peter Alhadeff reports.
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WW1 online medical records project hits 100,000 names
UK military genealogy specialists, Forces War Records, have now transcribed 100,000 medical records of British First World War soldiers as part of a project to make them available online Nicki Giles, from Forces War Records, considers a doctor’s life on the Western Front.
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Leeds remembers Indian student who fought as Yorkshire volunteer
Historians have shed new light on the story of the only Indian soldier among a group of Yorkshire volunteers who fought on the Western Front. Peter Alhadeff reports.
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