News – Page 72 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British First World War soldiers reburied at Loos, France

Twenty British First World War soldiers were reinterred in northern France last week, almost 100 years after they were killed.

March 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

World Poetry Day launch for international Centenary cultural events and performances

The impact of the poetry and literature of the First World War is to be examined in a wide programme of international cultural events and performances.

March 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Canadian symposium to mark First World War Centenary

The World Heritage Tourism Research Network at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada, is hosting a two day symposium on “the First World War, Remembrance, Commemoration and Perspectives in the 21st Century”.

End Date: 17 May 2014

March 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Commonwealth War Graves Commission launches ‘Virtual Cemetery’ teaching resource for Centenary

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has launched a new education resource, which aims to help teachers engage students during the First World War Centenary.

March 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Jewish experiences of the First World War explored at new London exhibition

The Jewish Museum London and the Jewish Military Museum have opened a new exhibition exploring the Jewish experience of the First World War.

March 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Lecture: ‘Belgian Neutrality & the British Decision for War’

Beyond the 1914-1918 Centenary is organising a series of lectures in Brussels to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

March 22, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British Ministry of Defence identifies ten First World War soldiers

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has successfully identified ten soldiers who died during the First World War, after analysis of DNA samples from relatives of the men.

March 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: ‘World War I in Vienna – City Life in Photography and Graphic Art’

A new exhibition at the Wien Museum (Vienna Museum) in Austria will explore the impact of the First World War on the Home Front.

End Date: 18 Jan 2015

March 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

US President Obama to commemorate First World War with King Philippe on visit to Belgium

President Barack Obama will travel to Belgium this week, where he will attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Flanders.

March 25, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Studying reasons for First World War leads to “permanent state of confusion” Sir Max Hastings claims

The July crisis of 1914 is the most complex series of events in human history and can make you feel “a bit mad,” author and journalist Sir Max Hastings says.