News – Page 63 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition in European Cultural Capital – Riga, Latvia – to explore the First World War

An exhibition about the First World War has opened in Riga, Latvia, as part of the city’s programme to mark its status as European Capital of Culture 2014.

End Date: 20 Apr 2014

January 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Theatre production remembers Aboriginals who fought during the First World War

The Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Festival have developed a theatre production about Aboriginals who fought during the First World War to mark the Centenary.

January 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

French and German Presidents to mark Centenary in Alsace on August 3 2014

Centenary News learns that Germany’s President, Joachim Gauck, will join French President François Hollande in Alsace to mark the Centenary of the start of the First World War.

January 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Requiem with Durham Cathedral Choir to mark First World War Centenary

Durham Cathedral Choir will commemorate the Centenary of the First World War with a special service this March.

End Date: 08 Mar 2014

January 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Germany’s youth “wants to learn more about the First World War”

Deutsche Welle reports that an increasing number of people under the age of 30 in Germany – as much as 77% – would like to know more about the First World War, but the subject is “neglected” in schools.

January 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

1914 – The Middle of Europe: The Rhineland and the First World War

1914 – Mitten in Europa: Das Rheinland und der Erste Weltkrieg has been established by the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) to mark the Centenary of the First World War in the region.

January 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Centenary “largely ignored” in Russia

The Moscow Times interviews British historian Sir Max Hastings about how “World War I was very nearly written out of Russian history during the early years of the Soviet Union”.

January 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News films the WFA’s ‘Great War Underground’ conference

Centenary News has filmed The Great War Underground, a conference organised by the WFA and the National Army Museum to explore the hidden world of the tunnellers who fought below ground.

January 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK National Archives digitises First World War Certificates of Exemption from fighting

The records of more than 8,000 British men who pleaded not to fight in the First World War have been put online by the National Archives in London.

January 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Britain’s National Army Museum starts Centenary project to honour the “forgotten” casualties of both World Wars

The National Army Museum in London has appointed two expert researchers to help honour unrecorded casualties of the First and Second World Wars.