Events – Page 44 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 15, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Tea’s up for Talbot House Centenary

The cheer offered to WW1 British soldiers 100 years ago when Talbot House first opened its doors in Belgium was today remembered on the streets of London and Manchester.

December 18, 2015 CN Editorial Team

From Scapa Flow to Portsmouth – Jutland guns to feature at 2016 centenary exhibition

Guns that saw action at the Battle of Jutland will be among exhibits at the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s centenary exhibition, opening in May 2016.

December 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting

Missing fragments from a Great War masterpiece are back on view for the first time in decades at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, as CN contributor Patrick Gregory discovers.

Author: Patrick Gregory

December 23, 2015 CN Editorial Team

‘Rearranging History’ – US exhibition pieces together story of giant WW1 painting

December 31, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary year of 2015 – recalled in pictures from Centenary News

Pictures taken by the Centenary News team recall some of the many events over the past year, marking First World War anniversaries from 1915.

January 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary naval lecture series for 2016 in London

A series of lectures about the British navy in the First World World War will be held at the Army & Navy Club, London, to mark the Centenary of the Battle of Jutland.

January 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary: February ticket deadline for July 1 Lochnagar ceremony

Ticket applications for admission to the Somme Centenary commemorations at Lochnagar Crater in France will close on February 15th 2016, organisers announce.

January 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Call for papers: ‘Beyond the Western Front – The Global First World War’

The Centre for Hidden Histories in the UK is seeking contributions for a 2016 conference and community event, entitled Beyond the Western Front: The Global First World War.

January 20, 2016 CN Editorial Team

The Great War in the Middle East – Sandhurst conference April 2016

An international conference re-examining the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East is to be held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from April 20th-21st 2016.

January 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand honours its Great War tunnellers with new memorial

The soldiers of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company are being remembered with the dedication of a new memorial in the former mining town of Waihi.