Controversies – Page 14 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of the St Eloi Craters

March 27th 2016 marked the centenary of the largely forgotten ‘Battle of the St Eloi Craters’, fought in a landscape pitted by mine explosions near Ypres. Matt Warner tells the story.

Author: Matt Warner

March 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Battle of the St Eloi Craters

March 27th 2016 marked the centenary of the largely forgotten ‘Battle of the St Eloi Craters’, fought in a landscape pitted by mine explosions near Ypres. Matt Warner tells the story.

March 31, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary study doubles New Zealand troop numbers at Gallipoli

The number of New Zealanders who fought at Gallipoli is ‘certain to have been more than 16,000’, military historians in New Zealand say.

April 11, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Shell shock on the Somme – Centenary News speaks to Taylor Downing, author of ‘Breakdown’

Centenary News’ Books Editor, Eleanor Baggley, talks to Taylor Downing about Breakdown, his new book focusing on ‘the Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme’, and how it challenged preconceived notions of mental illness.

April 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Easter Rising starts in Dublin

Republican groups launched a revolt against British rule in Ireland on Easter Monday 1916 (April 24th), seizing a number of key buildings in Dublin.

April 27, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update: Jutland debate postponed at UK Navy Museum

A Battle of Jutland debate – scheduled for May 9th 2016 at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth – has been postponed.

May 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Sykes-Picot Agreement

Britain and France concluded a secret deal in May 1916 for dividing the Middle East between them after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.

May 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK navy museum explores ‘misunderstood’ Battle of Jutland

Britain’s Royal Navy Museum has opened its major Centenary exhibition ’36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle that Won the War’ at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

May 31, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Battle of Jutland

The British and German fleets fought the biggest naval battle of the First World War off the coast of Denmark on May 31st/June 1st 1916.

June 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

HMS Hampshire wreck surveyed off Orkney

Marine archaeologists from the University of the Highlands & Islands have surveyed the wreck of HMS Hampshire, the British cruiser sunk in June 1916 with the loss of War Minister Lord Kitchener and most of the crew.