United Kingdom – Page 109 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.

January 3, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele Centenary – UK ticket ballot opens

Descendants of those who fought at the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele are invited to apply for tickets to attend the UK’s centenary commemorations in Belgium on 31 July 2017.

January 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Book launch – ‘National Myth & the First World War in Modern Popular Music’

A new book exploring how the First World War has influenced songwriters from the 1950s to the present day will be launched with a lecture by author Peter Grant in London on 7 March 2017.

January 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Was Jutland the battle that won the First World War? – Debate

British and German naval historians will answer questions about the Battle of Jutland in a public debate organised by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, on 2 February 2017.

January 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Women and the Royal Navy: Pioneers to Professionals’ – Exhibition opening February 2017

The role of women in the British navy will be highlighted in a centenary exhibition opening at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, in February.

January 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917-18’

An exhibition at the Estorick Collection in London offers a rare glimpse of Britain’s First World War Italian campaign, writes CN Editor Peter Alhadeff.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

January 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917-18’

An exhibition at the Estorick Collection in London offers a rare glimpse of Britain's First World War Italian campaign, writes CN Editor Peter Alhadeff.

January 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Peter Barton talks about the Somme – from both sides of the wire

Military historian Peter Barton will discuss German perspectives of the Battle of the Somme on 18 January 2017 as part of a free lecture series organised by the Herts at War centenary project in the UK.

End Date: 18 Jan 2017

January 19, 2017 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: The Silvertown Explosion

More than 70 people were killed, and hundreds more injured, in a blast at a munitions factory in London’s docklands on 19 January 1917.

January 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

War artist Wyndham Lewis to feature in IWM’s 2017 Centenary events

A major retrospective devoted to the First World War work of modernist painter Wyndham Lewis is among the special exhibitions announced for Imperial War Museums’ Centenary year.