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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‘Gassed’ in US Midwest debut at WWI Museum
One of the best known First World War paintings, depicting the aftermath of a gas attack, is the focus for a new exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City.
Continue readingZeebrugge Centenary – ‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition coming up in Bruges
The crucial struggle waged between the British navy and the Flanders-based German submarine fleet during the First World War is explored in a new exhibition, opening in Bruges on April 21.
Continue reading‘Side by Side’ – America’s WWI war effort remembered in Britain
Patrick Gregory reports on the opening of a new exhibition at the American Museum in Britain commemorating US involvement in the First World War.
Continue reading‘Battle for the North Sea’ exhibition in Flanders unites 11 Victoria Crosses
Centenary News tours a new exhibition in Bruges, bringing together all the Zeebrugge Raid Victoria Crosses – and highlighting both sides of the WW1 struggle between Flanders -based German submarines and Britain’s Royal Navy.
Continue readingLeeds Minister tribute to lives lived & lost in the First World War
Tributes are being paid to 76 British soldiers named on the church war memorial at Leeds Minster as part of ‘There But Not There’ – a commemorative art installation touring the UK in the final WW1 Centenary year.
Continue reading100 days remembering Wilfred Owen in Shropshire
Wide-ranging commemorations for the life and work of the British First World War poet and soldier Wilfred Owen have been announced in the county of his birth.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingLatest Armistice Centenary exhibitions open at IWM
Four exhibitions have opened at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of Making a New World – IWM’s season of events for the close of the First World War Centenary.
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