France embarks on a year of commemorations in February 2016, marking the Centenary of the Battle of Verdun.
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Museum honouring Verdun’s fallen reopens after €12.5m centenary renovation
Verdun’s Memorial Museum is reopening after major redevelopment, part of events today remembering the devastating offensive launched by German troops in eastern France on February 21st 1916.
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Kortrijk 1302 – Belgian exhibition explores German First World War occupation
A new exhibition at the heritage museum Kortrijk 1302 in Belgium examines the German occupation during the First World War. Volunteer writer Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports on the exhibition for Centenary News.
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Kortrijk 1302 – Belgian exhibition explores German First World War occupation
A new exhibition at the heritage museum Kortrijk 1302 in Belgium examines the German occupation during the First World War. Volunteer writer Katherine Quinlan-Flatter reports on the exhibition for Centenary News.
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New Zealand Home Front exhibition opens in Auckland
The differing experiences of New Zealanders left at home during the First World War are explored in the latest centenary exhibition at Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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‘Remnants’ – Review of South African artist’s Somme exhibition in Boston
Susan Werbe reviews 'Remnants', artist Paul Emmanuel's installation remembering the missing soldiers of the Somme, at Boston University's 808 Gallery in the United States.
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‘Remnants’ – Review of South African artist’s Somme exhibition in Boston
Susan Werbe reviews ‘Remnants’, artist Paul Emmanuel’s installation remembering the missing soldiers of the Somme, at Boston University’s 808 Gallery in the United States.
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Somme Centenary – Battlefield photos for City of London exhibition, June 2016
Michael St Maur Sheil’s evocative photographs of First World War landscapes return to London in June 2016 for an exhibition in Guildhall Yard marking the Battle of the Somme Centenary.
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Orkney HMS Hampshire exhibition seeks 1916 stories & mementoes
Organisers of a centenary exhibition in Orkney are appealing for photos, letters and other memorabilia relating to the loss of the British warship, HMS Hampshire, in June 1916.
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Update on Jutland 1916 exhibition at UK National Maritime Museum
A bugle presented to a boy sailor wounded at Jutland will be among objects displayed at the National Maritime Museum’s centenary exhibition, illustrating changing views of the 1916 battle from both sides.
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