Events – Page 70 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 26, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Making a New World’ – IWM opens final WW1 Centenary programme

A season of events exploring ‘how the First World War has shaped today’s society’ is starting at Imperial War Museums with Lest We Forget? – an exhibition at IWM North, Manchester.

August 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Storming the Skies’ – The First World War in Italy in photos

Centenary News toured an exhibition of photographs at the Army & Navy Club in London offering a rare glimpse, for UK eyes, of the First World War campaigns on the Italian Front.

August 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Royal tribute for Battle of Amiens Centenary

At this week’s centenary commemorations, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to Allied cooperation delivering the success of the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.

August 10, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Liverpool remembers the Chinese Labour Corps

The latest in a series of events across the UK commemorating the First World War service of the Chinese Labour Corps has been held at Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

August 27, 2018 CN Editorial Team

France & Germany to host Armistice Centenary ‘Youth for Peace’ forum

Hundreds of young people from Europe and neighbouring countries will meet in Berlin in November 2018 to develop present-day ideas for peace in the light of issues raised by the end of the First World War 100 years ago.

August 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Britain presents SS Mendi bell to South Africa

The bell from the troopship SS Mendi, sunk with the loss of more than 600 South African soldiers during the First World War, has been handed to President Cyril Ramaphosa to commemorate their sacrifice.

September 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Centenary revival for opera of love & betrayal in WW1 France

An opera based on the true story of stranded British soldiers who were sheltered by French villagers from 1914-16 is being revived for a First World War Centenary production.

September 8, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Poppy sculpture ‘Wave’ in Centenary finale at IWM North

Wave, one of the touring Tower of London poppy sculptures, is going on display at Imperial War Museums’ waterfront site in Manchester, its final stop of the First World War Centenary.

September 11, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Diggers & Doughboys’ – special exhibition at US National WWI Museum

A century of military ties between Australia and America, beginning on the Western Front in 1918, is explored through art in a new exhibition opening at the US National WWI Museum & Memorial, Kansas City.

September 15, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Call for Papers -The First World War: Past, Present, Future

The First World War Network of early career and postgraduate researchers is seeking papers for a conference in Edinburgh in June 2019 embracing multiple aspects of WW1.