United Kingdom – Page 33 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

National Museums Scotland unveils First World War Centenary programme

National Museums Scotland has announced its First World War Centenary programme.

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Michael Morpurgo writes about the Centenary: “We should honour those who died… but we should never glorify”

Writing in The Guardian, the author of War Horse writes about his own family connections to the First World War and why he believes there should be no "glorification" of the conflict during the Centenary.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News’ Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

Author: Peter Alhadeff

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News' Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Blackadder’ actor Sir Tony Robinson brands Education Secretary’s First World War comments “silly”

Sir Tony Robinson has branded comments by the Education Secretary that Blackadder is used to “feed myths” about the First World War by “left-wing academics” as “silly”.

January 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Argument about the history of the First World War breaks out between British politicians

An argument about the history of the First World War has erupted between England’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove, and the Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt.

January 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Mayor of London: the First World War “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression” and “the Left can’t bear to say so”

The Mayor of London has joined an ongoing argument amongst British politicians about the history of the First World War, in which he states the conflict “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression”.

January 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Tag: United Kingdom

National Museums Scotland unveils First World War Centenary programme

Michael Morpurgo writes about the Centenary: “We should honour those who died… but we should never glorify”

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

‘Blackadder’ actor Sir Tony Robinson brands Education Secretary’s First World War comments “silly”

Argument about the history of the First World War breaks out between British politicians

Mayor of London: the First World War “was overwhelmingly the result of German aggression” and “the Left can’t bear to say so”

Giant street theatre returns to Liverpool for First World War Centenary

British Government accused of “whitewash” in favouring Centenary commemorations for “New Commonwealth” over Australia

UK Culture Minister is criticised in Anzac Centenary row