The Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company (RAAHC) has undertaken a project to deliver an original WW1 Quick Firing 18 Pounder gun and ammunition limber complete with horse team and gun detatchment.
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The First World War: Perspectives of the Home Front
This one-day conference, presented by the Royal United Services Institute, will address ideas of the ‘Home Front’, with key themes ranging from social and political upheaval, mobilisation, civilian-military interaction, commemoration and linkages to contemporary developments, with the intention of adding to our wider understanding of the First World War.
Continue readingFlanders House promotes the 2014 publication of ‘Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918’
Centenary News writer Jillian Davidson attended a Flanders House NY book launch for Ed and Libby Klekowski's new publication, Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918.
Continue readingHonest History provides resources for Australian history
Honest History is a group of historians and others supporting the reinterpretation of Australian history. They say that their aim is to present "a more balanced viewpoint", during the Centenary of the First World War.
Continue readingEvents held around UK to mark the first Remembrance Sunday during 2014-18 Centenary
Remembrance Sunday events are being held today at the Cenotaph in London and at memorials in cities, towns and villages throughout the UK.
Continue reading“Liberté!” A French-Canadian one-man show inspired by Canada’s WWI history
Centenary News writer, Christopher Harvie, discusses “Liberté!”, the one -man, one act play that attempts to give a voice to a unique part of Canada’s First World War heritage in French.
Continue reading“Liberté!” A French-Canadian one-man show inspired by Canada’s WWI history
Centenary News writer, Christopher Harvie, discusses “Liberté!”, the one -man, one act play that attempts to give a voice to a unique part of Canada’s First World War heritage in French.
Continue readingSomaliland marks First World War Centenary
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission reports that in East Africa, the Centenary of the First World War was remembered at Hargeisa War Cemetery, Somaliland.
Continue readingPublic Lecture: The Nature and Character of Military Medicine from the First World War to Today’s Conflicts
Northumbria University will be hosting a public lecture featuring Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Jowan Penn-Barwell on Tuesday 11 November. The lecture will be centred on the Navy medics role in the First World War, as well as the advances in medicine from WWI until the present.
Continue reading‘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.
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