Events – Page 7 – First World War Centenary News Archive

February 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Daughter of First World War Poet Edmund Blunden to speak at Oxford

Margi Blunden, daughter of the First World War poet, Edmund Blunden, will remember her father at Oxford University’s WW1 Poetry Spring School in April 2014.

February 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Trent to Trenches: Great War Centenary Weekend, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire’s Centenary programme, Trent to Trenches, will include a “commemorative living history event” on the 100th anniversary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination.

February 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Historians to commemorate Centenary at Franschhoek Literary Festival, South Africa

The Franschhoek Literary Festival, which is held annually in South Africa, will mark the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War as it is joined by historians Margaret Macmillan and Norman Stone.

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February 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australian War Memorial announces First World War Centenary programme

The Australian War Memorial has announced a series of events and exhibitions to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which will include the names of Australia’s First World War dead being projected onto the Memorial.

February 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Whitehall debate hears call to challenge First World War myths

Centenary News Deputy Editor, Mike Swain, reports from a debate held in Whitehall, London, on the First World War Centenary and whether it is relevant to our lives today.

February 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Chorus launches – 600 international young singers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall

Sing UK is bringing together a chorus of young people from four of the former combatant nations of the First World War – Belgium, England, France and Germany – for a special Centenary concert.

February 24, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Southwark Cathedral launch of ‘The Church of England and the First World War’

Southwark Cathedral in London will host the launch of the reprint of The Church of England and the First World War, by Canon Alan Wilkinson.

March 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘India and the Great War’ Centenary commemoration project & conference

The United Services Institution, Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research, will hold a conference with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to highlight India's contribution during the First World War.

March 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Requiem with Durham Cathedral Choir to mark First World War Centenary

Durham Cathedral Choir will commemorate the Centenary of the First World War with a special service this March.

March 10, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Women’s roles in the First World War to be remembered in the UK

The role women played in the First World War is being remembered in a series of exhibitions, debates, lectures and conferences as the Centenary gets under way.