A memorial to a rugby star and a monument in a village built for disabled veterans are among 13 English war memorials newly listed for conservation, or upgraded, to mark the Battle of Passchendaele Centenary.
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‘Passchendaele’ artist Wyndham Lewis showcased at IWM North
Centenary News visits IWM North's exhibition highlighting the work of Wyndham Lewis – artillery officer at the Third Battle of Ypres and challenging WW1 war artist.
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Centenary News visits IWM North's exhibition highlighting the work of Wyndham Lewis – artillery officer at the Third Battle of Ypres and challenging WW1 war artist.
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14-18 NOW opens global campaign to map Tower Poppies online
Owners of the ceramic Tower of London poppies are invited to ‘pin’ their current locations to a digital map for a new project launched by UK First World War Centenary arts programme, 14-18 NOW.
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‘A Soldier’s Journey’ explored – with US WWI Memorial sculptor Sabin Howard
US sculptor Sabin Howard tells Centenary News how a visit to New Zealand is helping to shape his designs for America’s new National World War I Memorial.
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‘A Soldier’s Journey’ explored – with US WWI Memorial sculptor Sabin Howard
US sculptor Sabin Howard tells Centenary News how a visit to New Zealand is helping to shape his designs for America's new National World War I Memorial.
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‘Away from the Western Front’ seeks musical recruits for new WW1 song
A newly-composed song, reflecting the bitterness felt by West Indian troops at the end of the Great War, is being added to the familiar repertoire, with an invitation to perform it.
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‘Beyond the Battlefields’ – Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War
The work of a German photographer who focussed her camera on the home front is being displayed for the first time outside Germany, at twin UK exhibitions in Birmingham.
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Military Wives Choirs campaign to record 2018 Centenary album
More than 70 British Military Wives Choirs are uniting with military bands from all three services to record a new album commemorating the end of the WW1 Centenary in 2018.
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WW1 memorials built in 1917 ‘listed’ for conservation
Eight memorials dedicated to the dead of the Great War in 1917 have been newly listed for preservation in their centenary year by the UK Government.
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