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January 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

BBC’s Dan Snow asks: How did so many soldiers survive the trenches?

As the BBC prepares to mark the Centenary with its World War One season, historian Dan Snow asks: ‘How did so many soldiers survive the trenches?’

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January 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Would you like to be a volunteer writer for Centenary News?

Centenary News is looking to expand its team of volunteer writers – to help us continue to provide coverage of the upcoming 100 year anniversary of the First World War.

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January 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘The Army Children of the First World War’ Centenary project

The Army Children Archive (TACA) has developed a project to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which focuses on children during the conflict who had fathers serving in the British Army.

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January 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Gavrilo Princip “to have monument” in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia

The Serbian daily, Novosti, reports an initiative by the Government of Serbia will see a monument to Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin – Gavrilo Princip – erected in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade.

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January 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK announces ‘Last Post’ mass participation music project for Centenary

The UK’s Communities Secretary has announced that a mass participation music project for 300 communities will take place in every year of the Centenary.

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January 27, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New book adds 500,000 to estimates of First World War military dead

A new history of the First World War says the number of soldiers killed or who died on active service has been massively underestimated.

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January 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: ‘Doomsday – Jewish Life and Death in World War I’, Vienna

The Jewish Museum in Vienna will explore the “grave consequences” for the Jews which came with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a new exhibition this spring.

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January 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Countdown: Five months until the 100 year anniversary of Archduke’s assassination

Today marks five months until the Centenary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and six months until Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

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January 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Petition to honour executed nurse Edith Cavell on UK Centenary coin passes 50,000 names

Almost 51,000 people have now backed a campaign to have the executed British nurse, Edith Cavell, honoured on a £2 coin commemorating the First World War Centenary.

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January 29, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War European Tourism Fair, Italy, 2014

A First World War ‘Tourism Fair’ will take place in Gorizia, northern Italy, where tourism sites and locations associated with the conflict will be able to promote their plans to mark the Centenary.

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