The President of Portugal’s First World War Centenary Commission, Lieutenant-General Mário de Oliveira Cardoso, has spoken to Centenary News about his country’s plans to mark the Centenary.
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The New York Society Library holds the City’s first exhibition to commemorate the Centenary
Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about a new exhibition which has opened in New York to mark the Centenary of the First World War.
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RAF Museum creates new exhibition to tell the ‘often overlooked’ story of air power in the First World War
The Royal Air Force Museum is developing a new exhibition to explore the growth of air power in the First World War, from early reconnaissance flights to the coordinated use of aircraft and artillery.
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Centenary News given rare view of Iraqi Commonwealth First World War Cemetery
Author Sean McLachlan writes about his visit to Baghdad North Gate Cemetery where Commonwealth and Turkish First World War dead are buried.
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Historian’s Centenary mission to find 10,000 World War One memorials across America
Washington Art historian Mark Levitch has embarked on an ambitious Memorial Inventory Project to uncover the 10,000 or more American World War One memorials scattered across the country.
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First World War romance between a wounded hero & nurse who thought he was a German spy
An extraordinary love story, between a heroic British Captain and a nurse who believed he was a German spy, has been uncovered by students looking back into First World War archives.
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The photograph which reveals the “muddled and mangled” history of assassin Gavrilo Princip
In a special article for Centenary News, author Tim Butcher reveals the myths and historical mistakes which surround the story of gunman Gavrilo Princip.
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Arthur Machen and his regret at starting the First World War myth of the Angels of Mons
Rosalie Parker, publicity officer of The Friends of Arthur Machen, explains how the First World War myth of the Angels of Mons grew out of a fictional story by the Welsh writer.
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Flanders House holds annual memorial service at Manhattan’s DeWitt Clinton Park
Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about Flanders House’s annual memorial service at the Clinton War Memorial as the Centenary approaches.
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Trentino remembers La Guerra Bianca as it prepares for the Centenary
Mike Swain reports on plans underway in Trentino, northern Italy, to mark the ‘White War’, which saw thousands of Austro-Hungarian and Italian troops engage in the mountains.
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