News – Page 66 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Giant photos at IWM North Manchester mark vital role of women on the First World War Home Front

The vital contribution of women to the Home Front in the First World War is being marked with a giant display of photographs from the Imperial War Museum’s archives at IWM North in Manchester.

February 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Library and Archives Canada to digitise 640,000 First World War service files

Library and Archives Canada is planning to digitise 640,000 personnel service files of members of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK Minister says there will be “no dancing in the street” over Britain’s role in the First World War

Britain’s Minister for Sport, Tourism & Equalities, Helen Grant MP, has stated that there will be no celebration of Britain’s victory in the First World War.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s First World War naval campaign to be marked with major museum project

Australia is to pay tribute to the role of its navy, with a new building at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney promising visitors a “dynamic and interactive” experience.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British and German ambassadors visit Saint-Symphorien cemetery near Mons ahead of Centenary

The British and German ambassadors to Belgium have visited Commonwealth War Graves Commission St Symphorien Military Cemetery near the city of Mons.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announces Centenary plans

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has announced a series of events and exhibitions to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

February 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Major exhibition of American First World War art

A major exhibition devoted to exploring how American artists reacted to the First World War is being prepared at a leading arts academy.

February 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Daughter of First World War Poet Edmund Blunden to speak at Oxford

Margi Blunden, daughter of the First World War poet, Edmund Blunden, will remember her father at Oxford University’s WW1 Poetry Spring School in April 2014.

February 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: Total war and Austria-Hungary, Vienna

An exhibition at Vienna Technical Museum (Technisches Museum Wien), entitled Under the watchwords of war and technology, will explore the impact of total war on the battlefront to the home front on Austria-Hungary.

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February 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

American art historian sets out to locate First World War memorials across the country

An article in The Washington Post highlights the work of art historian Mark Levitch to locate First World War memorials across the United States, in a project he calls the World War I Memorial Inventory Project.