News – Page 68 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Cross & Cockade International: First World War Aviation Society CCI Seminar 2014

Cross & Cockade International is holding its 2014 Seminar – which will commemorate the early years of the First World War in the air.

End Date: 15 Jun 2014

February 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Letters written by students from First World War battlefields to their professor go on show

Four letters written by students from the battlefields of the First World War to their history professor are to be seen in public for the first time in England.

February 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

BBC series telling “local stories from a global conflict” launches on February 24

The BBC has given a taste of some of the stories about life on the UK home front which will feature in a major First World War series running on BBC local radio and regional television.

February 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: Franz Ferdinand’s journey around the world, Vienna

An exhibition at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria, will explore a ten month world trip that Archduke Franz Ferdinand made in 1892-93.

End Date: 02 Nov 2014

February 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial announces First World War Centenary programme

The Australian War Memorial has announced a series of events and exhibitions to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which will include the names of Australia’s First World War dead being projected onto the Memorial.

February 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Whitehall debate hears call to challenge First World War myths

Centenary News Deputy Editor, Mike Swain, reports from a debate held in Whitehall, London, on the First World War Centenary and whether it is relevant to our lives today.

February 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Call for papers & participation: The Great War in Africa Conference 2014, Lisbon

The Great War Africa Association and The International Network for the Study of the Great War in Africa are organising The Great War in Africa conference.

February 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia launches Anzac Centenary coin

Australia has joined Canada and the UK in launching a commemorative coin to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

February 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Chorus launches – 600 international young singers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall

Sing UK is bringing together a chorus of young people from four of the former combatant nations of the First World War – Belgium, England, France and Germany – for a special Centenary concert.

February 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Southwark Cathedral launch of ‘The Church of England and the First World War’

Southwark Cathedral in London will host the launch of the reprint of The Church of England and the First World War, by Canon Alan Wilkinson.