Exhibitions – Page 15 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ – a personal view by Christopher J. Harvie

CN writer Christopher J. Harvie, discusses ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’, the William Longstaff painting on loan to the Canadian War Museum for ‘Fighting in Flanders-Gas. Mud. Memory,’ a Centenary exhibition starting in November 2014.

Author: Christopher J. Harvie

October 21, 2014 CN Editorial Team

£11.5m UK lottery grant awarded to transform Battle of Jutland veteran HMS Caroline

The UK Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £11.5 million to the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to conserve and restore HMS Caroline, the only survivor of the 1916 Battle of Jutland.

October 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles

Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.

October 28, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New French museum remembers Australian & British war dead at Fromelles

Centenary News visits the Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, which tells the story of how the remains of 250 soldiers were recovered, almost a century after they fell in France.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

November 3, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Vu du Front’ – Major Centenary exhibition at the Army Museum, Paris

A major exhibition in Paris, looking at the portrayal of the First World War by those who went to the Front, runs at the Army Museum in Les Invalides until January 25th 2014.

November 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Barcelona, neutral zone (1914-1918)’ Exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation

The Joan Miró Foundation of Barcelona presents ‘Barcelona, neutral zone (1914-1918),’ an exhibition that aims to represent the visual Barcelona during the period of the First World War.

November 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Catch 2039’: a campaign to reform historic copyright

UK cultural institutions are displaying blank paper in their exhibitions to protest restrictive copyright protection laws. The campaign is calling on the UK Government to reduce the term of copyright protection in certain unpublished works.

November 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Stonehenge & the First World War – English Heritage Centenary exhibition

English Heritage opened a special exhibition at Stonehenge on November 5th 2014, telling the story of how soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth trained for the First World War near this prehistoric site.

November 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Tower of London poppies – some will stay throughout November 2014

Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces today that some of the ceramic poppies at the Tower of London will stay on view until the end of November 2014, before starting a First World War Centenary tour.

November 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Lusitania: The War at the Mouth of the Mersey’ Audio Installation

Working in association with Merseyside Maritime Museum and the Theatre in the Rough Festival, a group of writers in the Merseyside region of England have researched stories about the Lusitania, and created a series of audio dramas which are currently touring in a bespoke sound installation.