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October 13, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Jutland Centenary 2016 – UK Government announces plans

British and German ships are to lay wreaths in the North Sea and Orkney will host commemorations as part of the UK’s plans, announced today, to mark the Battle of Jutland Centenary on May 31st 2016.

December 1, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News explores Nick Jellicoe’s Jutland anniversary website

A new website telling the story of the Battle of Jutland has been launched for the 2016 Centenary by Nick Jellicoe, grandson of Britain’s First World War naval commander, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

December 11, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Jutland Centenary: Descendants invited to UK commemorations

Relatives of First World War sailors are invited to attend Britain’s commemorations in Orkney marking the centenary of the Battle of Jutland in 2016.

January 1, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2016

Centenary News looks ahead to the some of the major First World War anniversaries which will be remembered in 2016.

January 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary update – Navy Museum to challenge ‘belief Jutland was a German victory’

The National Museum of the Royal Navy says its Jutland Centenary exhibition, opening on May 19th 2016, will challenge “the belief that the battle was a German victory.”

February 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

British-German appeal to support Jutland Centenary memorial project

Relatives of the British and German commanders at the Battle of Jutland have made a joint appeal for donations to support the construction of a ‘lasting memorial’ on Denmark’s North Sea coast.

February 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Battle of Verdun starts

A massive artillery bombardment on the morning of February 21st 1916 signalled the start of the German attack on Verdun, the longest single battle of the First World War.

February 21, 2016 CN Editorial Team

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.

February 24, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Article: ‘The legend of Verdun’

An article in New Statesman by Alistair Horne (Author of The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916) looks at the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of the First World War.

March 16, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Berlin photo exhibition remembers Battle of Verdun

Pictures of Verdun by British photographer Michael St Maur Sheil are displayed at a Franco-German exhibition in Berlin marking the centenary of the 1916 First World War battle.