The Tideswell Male Voice Choir presents a musical tribute to the centenary of the First War World.
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Centenary focus for Imperial War Museum’s 2014 short film awards
Films drawing on the Imperial War Museum's First World War archives are given prominent billing in IWM's Short Film Festival, which has a Centenary focus on the weekend of 8/9th November 2014.
Continue readingTC Squared Theatre Company announces New York premiere of the Great War Theatre Project
The TC Squared Theatre Company in New York presents ‘The Great War Theatre Project: Messengers of a Bitter Truth’ on Sunday, November 9th 2014 6.30pm.
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Poppies light up Big Ben on first Centenary Remembrance Sunday
Images of falling poppies were projected onto the Big Ben clocktower at the Houses of Parliament in London to mark Remembrance Sunday in the UK on November 9th 2014.
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Prime Minister joins WFA in Armistice Day remembrance at the Cenotaph, London
British Prime Minister David Cameron took part in the Western Front Association’s annual remembrance service at the Cenotaph on November 11th 2014, the first Armistice Day of the Great War Centenary.
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Armistice Day: International First World War memorial opens in France
The 96th anniversary of the Armistice today is being marked in France with the inauguration of a new memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette, near Vimy.
Continue readingPlanting of last Tower of London poppy draws thousands on Armistice Day
Huge crowds flocked to the Tower of London for the planting of the final ceramic poppy on November 11th 2014, the 96th anniversary of the Armistice ending the First World War.
Continue readingArmistice Day: France inaugurates international memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette
A First World War memorial to all soldiers killed on the battlefields of northern France will be inaugurated at Notre Dame de Lorette on Armistice Day 2014.
Continue readingEvent at Flanders House in New York – screening of Pershing’s Last Patriot
Pershing’s Last Patriot, The Story of Frank W. Buckles, America’s Last Veteran of World War I, directed by David DeJonge, is to screen at Flanders House in New York on Thursday, November 13th 2014 at 6.30pm.
Continue reading“A Sociedade e a Grande Guerra” – “The Great War and Society” seminar at Lisbon University
An international seminar, “A Sociedade e a Grande Guerra" or "The Great War and Society” will take place at the Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University, Portugal, on November 13th 2014.
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