Events – Page 65 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 30, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Final Tower Poppies tour venues named

Six cities are to host the Tower of London Poppies in 2018, the last year of their UK tour marking the First World War Centenary.

December 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

2018 Events – ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ in Armistice Centenary tribute

British artist Rob Heard is individually stitching more than 72,000 shrouded figures to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending the First World War.

January 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

France names 2018 ‘Year Clemenceau’ for close of WW1 Centenary

Themes for France’s final year of Great War Centenary commemorations include a focus on Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, remembered as the ‘Father of Victory’.

January 4, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2018

A Centenary News summary of major anniversaries that shaped 1918, the final year of the First World War – and news of some of the 2018 event programmes announced so far.

January 14, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Schools’ WW1 Centenary quilt display in Cardiff

Two commemorative quilts designed and handmade by 130 Monmouthshire schoolchildren for the First World War Centenary are on display at the Welsh Assembly's Pierhead Futures Gallery.

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January 17, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Mission Centenaire backs more than 1,200 projects for 2018

The number of projects endorsed for the final year of WW1 commemorations by France’s lead Centenary organisation is close to that of 2014, with more still pending.

January 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

The Great War Symphony – a ‘Monument in Music’ for the Centenary

Centenary News has listened in to recording of ‘The Great War Symphony’ – a new choral work specially written for the closing WW1 commemorations by British composer Patrick Hawes.

February 2, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Islay remembers 1918 troopship losses

The Scottish island of Islay is embarking on events to commemorate the sinking of the Tuscania and Otranto, with the loss of 700 American and British lives.

February 6, 2018 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: First UK women given the vote

Campaigners for women’s suffrage in Britain achieved a victory during the First World War, with some women winning the right to vote in 1918.

February 8, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Update on Islay’s Tuscania centenary tribute

People on the Hebridean island of Islay gathered on February 5 for the first in a series of events in 2018 commemorating First World War tragedies on their shores a century ago.