Fields of Battle 1914-1918, Lands of Peace 2014-2018, has developed a touring street gallery exhibition “based not on the horrors of war, but on how over time, nature has healed the battlefields”.
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New Zealand announces First World War Centenary military commemoration dates
The Government of New Zealand has announced the dates of domestic and overseas commemorative and ceremonial events during the Centenary.
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Restoration of Scottish Highland First World War memorials may not be complete in time for Centenary
Highland News reports that a local authority in Scotland – the Highland Council – may reverse plans for First World War memorials to be restored in time for the Centenary of the outbreak of the conflict.
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Welsh First Minister announces support for new First World War memorial in Belgium
The First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, announced Welsh Government financial support for a new memorial in Belgium to remember the Welsh who served during the First World War.
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Scottish Highland war memorials will not be restored in time for 2014, but communities will be “consulted”
The Highland Council in Scotland announces that plans to restore First World War memorials in the local authority in time for the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War will no longer go ahead.
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Russian President to inaugurate monument in France dedicated to First World War soldiers
France Bleu reports that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will visit northern Rheims in France in 2014 to inaugurate a memorial dedicated to the First World War Russian Expeditionary Force.
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Football and Peace project receives Heritage Lottery Fund support
The National Children’s Football Alliance has been awarded a £32,500 grant, which will help fund a research project in Kent exploring the relationship between sport and the First World War.
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Great War in East Africa Association conference, November 2013
The second Great War in East Africa Association conference will take place at the National Archives, Kew, London on the 9th November 2013.
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Western Front Association Durham conference: Britain, Germany and the First World War
The Durham branch of the Western Front Association, in partnership with Beamish Museum and the Durham Light Infantry Museum, is organising a conference about the First World War.
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Author of 1913 book tells Centenary News that we have only heard “half the story” about the pre-war world
The author of 1913: The World Before the Great War, Charles Emmerson, speaks to Centenary News.
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