Archives – Page 4 – First World War Centenary News Archive

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.

March 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Wills of 26,000 Scottish First World War soldiers to be made available online

The wills of 26,000 Scottish soldiers who died in the First World War are to be made available by the National Records of Scotland via ScotlandsPeople.

March 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Archive of Serbia opens new exhibition to mark First World War Centenary

The Archive of Serbia – the country’s national archive – has opened a new exhibition to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

March 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Battlefield tactics revealed in latest online First World War diaries from UK National Archives

A second batch of almost 4,000 digitised First World War unit diaries from France and Flanders have been put online by the National Archives in London.

March 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Archives of Ontario exhibits First World War love letters

The Archives of Ontario, Canada, has developed the first in a series of exhibitions which will explore the impact of the First World War on the state’s people.

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.

March 31, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New details of German poison gas attack against Irish First World War soldiers

Journalist Ronan McGreevy of The Irish Times reports that new details have been released by the UK National Archives on a German gas attack on Irish First World War soldiers.

April 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Top secret spy files from First World War go online

More than 150 top secret files from British intelligence agency MI5 of individuals and organisations involved in spying or being watched have been released online.

May 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Lusitania was carrying First World War explosives from New York when sunk in May 1915, British files reveal

The passenger ship Lusitania was carrying munitions when it was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915, documents released by the British Government have revealed.

May 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary Education Project receives £100,000 Heritage Lottery Fund support

A research project which will bring together young people from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Turkey to commemorate the Gallipoli Campaign has received £100,000 funding support.