News – Page 41 – First World War Centenary News Archive

August 8, 2013 CN Editorial Team

British Poetry and the First World War international conference

The English Association has announced that it will hold an international conference in September 2014 to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

End Date: 07 Sep 2014

August 8, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Unseen World War I photos: German Trenches

A man has made available photographs taken by his great-grandfather, Lt. Walter Koessler, during his time as a German officer in the First World War.

August 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Dissent, Activism & Transformation in the World War I Era’ conference, Georgian Court University, USA

Georgian Court University in New Jersey, USA, is hosting a conference entitled ‘Dissent, Activism & Transformation in the World War I Era’ in October 2014.

August 9, 2013 CN Editorial Team

International workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina: ‘La Gran Guerra en un contexto global’

An international workshop about ‘The Great War and the Wider World’ will take place at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

End Date: 23 Aug 2013

August 12, 2013 CN Editorial Team

President Obama appoints final members to USA’s World War I Centennial Commission

President Barack Obama has appointed the final three members to the US World War I Centennial Commission, completing the twelve person body.

August 12, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National World War I Museum to host ‘The Coming of the Great War’ symposium

The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, USA, is to host “a symposium on the political, social, economic, cultural, and military events between 1870 and 1913, leading to the Great War 1914-1918”.

August 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

National Army Museum announces First World War Centenary plans

Britain’s National Army Museum has announced its four-year plan to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

August 13, 2013 CN Editorial Team

European Film Gateway 1914 project

The European Film Gateway 1914 project is digitising film and non-film material relating to the First World War in time for the Centenary.

August 14, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Yorkshire and The Great War 100 year commemoration 2014–2018’ seminar

Leeds City Museum will host a seminar in September 2013 for groups and institutions which are planning to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War in Yorkshire.

End Date: 04 Sep 2013

August 15, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Villages in the Reims area to co-ordinate plans to mark First World War Centenary

The French villages of Berméricourt, Brimont, Courcy and Loivre are making preparations to mark the First World War Centenary.