Education – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 5, 2011 CN Editorial Team

Video introduction to the First World War Digital Poetry Archive

JISC has produced a video introduction to the First World War Digital Poetry Archive, which provides details about the content of the archive and its accessibility.

November 1, 2011 CN Editorial Team

The story behind a First World War matchbox from Scotland

The Creative Federation has uploaded a video about a matchbox from the First World War, which contained a note from a soldier to his family in Scotland.

December 7, 2012 CN Editorial Team

World War One Battlefields educational video for schools

Rumble TV has produced an educational video about the First World War and war cemeteries to "raise awareness of the sacrifices made in war for the life we have today".

February 18, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Australian Premier announces education grants & memorial restorations for Gallipoli Centenary

Adelaide Now has reported that the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has pledged $15 million in school grants and war memorial restoration funds to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings.

February 25, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Britain’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission signs Centenary agreements with French and German counterparts

The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission has signed agreements with its French and German counterparts to work in co-operation with them to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

February 27, 2013 CN Editorial Team

Country houses in Yorkshire, England, to organise exhibitions to mark the Centenary of the First World War

The Yorkshire Country House Partnership announces that nine houses will work together to organise a series of exhibitions exploring conflict affecting the houses, including the First World War.