Education – Page 9 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British Library hosts: ‘The First World War: The Debate’

The British Library has organised a debate focusing on the First World War in light of the upcoming Centenary, with a panel of academics discussing the conflict.

February 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality’ workshop, University of London

The British Association for Local History and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies are organising a workshop about the First World War.

March 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Sir Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson: Was Britain right to fight in World War One?

As part of the BBC’s World War One season to mark the Centenary, historians Sir Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson have laid out different viewpoints on Britain’s role in the conflict.

March 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Hidden Great War battlefield training site found on England’s South Coast

A practice battlefield used to train soldiers before they were sent to the Western Front has been discovered on England’s South Coast after being hidden for decades in dense undergrowth.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

March 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Hidden Great War battlefield training site found on England’s South Coast

Historian Dan Snow talks to Centenary News Deputy Editor, Peter Alhadeff, about a First World War practice battlefield discovered in undergrowth on the south coast of England.

March 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Hidden Great War battlefield training site found on England’s South Coast

A practice battlefield used to train soldiers before they were sent to the Western Front has been discovered in Hampshire, reports Peter Alhadeff.

March 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Hidden Great War battlefield training site found on England’s South Coast

A practice battlefield used to train soldiers before they were sent to the Western Front has been discovered in Hampshire, reports Peter Alhadeff.

March 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Battlefield tactics revealed in latest online First World War diaries from UK National Archives

A second batch of almost 4,000 digitised First World War unit diaries from France and Flanders have been put online by the National Archives in London.

March 13, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Schools and the Great War Centenary’ conference, Wellington College

Wellington College in England is organising a conference entitled: 'Schools and the Great War Centenary: How Schools Should Best Prepare', with speakers including the UK's Special Representative for the Centenary, Sir Hew Strachan and Jeremy Paxman.

March 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Conference: ‘The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives’, Australia

The University of Newcastle in Australia is organising a conference considering the local, global and imperial perspectives of the First World War.

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