The Union of Welsh Independent Churches has apologised for the role it played in encouraging men to enlist to fight during the First World War.
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Wallace and Gromit creators make film for Imperial War Museum
Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman have made a short film, Flight of the Stories, to mark the re-opening of the Imperial War Museum's galleries in London.
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Author Paul O’Prey speaks to Centenary News about his new First World War poetry anthology
Centenary News’ Books Editor, Eleanor Baggley, speaks to Paul O’Prey about his recent publication, First World War Poems from the Front.
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UK and German Parliamentarians sing Centenary Concert at Westminster Hall
The Choirs of the British and German Parliaments have sung together in London to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.
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First World War veteran ‘dazzles’ London for the Centenary
A strikingly modern version of the dazzle camouflage used at sea in the First World War can now be seen on the River Thames in the heart of London.
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Punch magazine digital archive will help researchers study First World War
Mike Swain reports on a new digital archive which sees 150 years of British satirical magazine Punch made available online including its’ influential period during the First World war.
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Punch magazine digital archive will help researchers study First World War
Mike Swain reports on a new digital archive which sees 150 years of British satirical magazine Punch made available online including its' influential period during the First World war.
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Punch magazine digital archive will help researchers study First World War
First World war cartoons and articles from the British satirical magazine Punch are being made available online as part of a new digital archive.
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Wilfred Owen’s First World War poetry returns to Craiglockhart in Centenary musical performance
Bullets and Daffodils, a musical drama based on Wilfred Owen’s First World War poetry, is to be performed at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh, scene of his inspirational meeting with Siegfried Sassoon.
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Reuters revisits Sarajevo: “World War One. What were they thinking?”
A report from a Reuters Newsmaker Event in New York, planned and moderated by Sir Harold Evans, and attended by former U.S Secretaries of State Dr Henry Kissinger and Dr Madeleine Albright.
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