Controversies – Page 5 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 2, 2013 CN Editorial Team

UK mint to produce special First World War Centenary coin series

The Royal Mint has announced that it will produce a five year coin series to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

December 3, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Archive of Serbia and National Assembly plan to tackle “100 times repeated lie” of Serbia’s First World War guilt with 2014 exhibitions

The Archive of Serbia & National Assembly of Serbia launched the first in a series of exhibitions on First World War documents in November.

December 5, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Sir Max Hastings: UK’s Centenary must explain that the First World War “was ghastly, but it was not futile”

On the BBC current affairs programme, The Daily Politics, Sir Max Hastings and Dr. Andrew Murrison MP took part in a discussion about plans to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.

December 29, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Skirmishes flare over World War I Centennial plans’

The Los Angeles Times reports on "disputes erupting in Europe over how best to remember a conflict that claimed the lives of millions".

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Is Britain’s new First World War Centenary coin “too jingoistic”?

The British newspaper The Daily Mail has highlighted the “backlash” on social media about a new coin featuring Lord Kitchener to mark the Centenary.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Centenary “likely to reawaken the ghosts of nationalism and highlight stark differences in how Europeans remember the conflict”

EurActiv publishes an article which argues the First World War Centenary is likely to "stir bad memories for fractured [Europe]".

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Blackadder’ actor Sir Tony Robinson brands Education Secretary’s First World War comments “silly”

Sir Tony Robinson has branded comments by the Education Secretary that Blackadder is used to “feed myths” about the First World War by “left-wing academics” as “silly”.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Argument about the history of the First World War breaks out between British politicians

An argument about the history of the First World War has erupted between England’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove, and the Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt.

January 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Mayor of London: the First World War “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression” and “the Left can’t bear to say so”

The Mayor of London has joined an ongoing argument amongst British politicians about the history of the First World War, in which he states the conflict “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression”.

January 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Germany is “not alone to blame” for the outbreak of the First World War

An article in Die Welt argues that Germany was “not alone” to blame for outbreak of the First World War.