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.
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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.
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Public reaction to a recent BBC News item featuring Dr Bryce Evans’ research on national kitchens has convinced the historian that the British approach to communal feeding in the First World War can have a contemporary impact.
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Newly-formed Latvian units went into action with the Imperial Russian Army 100 years ago to resist a German push. Patrick Gregory has recently visited the Baltic, and tells the story of the Latvian Rifles.
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On November 24th 1915.The Bystander magazine in London published the latest contribution from soldier-cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. His drawing, with its caption – “Well, if you knows of a better ‘ole, go to it!” – would become one of the most well-known and enduring cartoons of all time. Mark Warby tells its story.
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General Sir Charles Townshend’s controversial decision to stand against the Ottomans at Kut-al-Amara in December 1915 is discussed in this article by Major Paul Knight.
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Missing fragments from a Great War masterpiece are back on view for the first time in decades at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, as CN contributor Patrick Gregory discovers.
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CN contributor Paul Knight tells the story of the British Army’s West Lancashire Division, experienced Territorial soldiers reformed as the 55th Division in France in January 1916.
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Helen Kelly, the Projects Coordinator at HMDT Music has sent Centenary News an update on their project: Trench Brothers.
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A new exhibition at the heritage museum Kortrijk 1302 in Belgium examines the German occupation during the First World War. Volunteer writer Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports on the exhibition for Centenary News.
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