Education – Page 46 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Away from the Western Front’ project to highlight ‘overlooked’ campaigns

A new project aims to raise awareness of the men and women from Britain and its former empire who served in the ‘often overlooked’ WW1 campaigns in Salonika, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia and Africa.

February 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Chemin des Dames: Centenary dossier from Mission Centenaire

Articles and videos explaining the Battle of the Chemin des Dames have been released together online by Mission Centenaire for the April 2017 Centenary.

March 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Remembering World War I is essential’ – US Centennial Commissioner

The First World War was the ‘shaping event’ of the 20th century, and America should continue to learn from ‘this great tragedy’, says Dr Monique Brouillet Seefried, a US World War I Centennial Commissioner.

March 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog: ‘World War at US doorstep’, February 1917

The escalating diplomatic tension between Washington and Berlin after Germany's resumption of unrestricted U-boat warfare in February 1917 is discussed in this latest post from US blogger Dennis Cross.

March 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Book Review – The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage

Battlefield guide Victor Piuk discovers new perspectives in this study of how the landscapes of the Great War have influenced a century of commemoration and tourism.

Publication Date: 27 Oct 2016

Author: Dr Stephen Miles

March 5, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Imperial War Museum founded during WW1

The Imperial War Museum was founded on 5 March 1917 when the British Government approved a proposal for a national museum to record events taking place while the First World War was still being fought.

March 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘National Myth & the First World War in Modern Popular Music’

Cultural historian Dr Peter Grant talks about his new book charting the influence of the Great War on songwriters from the 1950s to the present day.

March 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Baghdad falls to British/Indian forces

Major Paul Knight considers how a renewed Allied campaign in Mesopotamia resulted in Baghdad’s capture on 11 March 1917.

Author: Major Paul Knight

March 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Baghdad falls to British/Indian forces

Major Paul Knight considers how a renewed Allied campaign in Mesopotamia resulted in Baghdad's capture on 11 March 1917.

March 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates in ‘February Revolution’

Nicholas II was the first of Europe’s imperial rulers to fall during the Great War, forced to abdicate on 15 March 1917 by mass protests in the Russian capital, Petrograd.