Centenary News highlights the key findings of the British Council's 'Remember the World as well as the War' report on understandings of the global dimesnion of the First World War.
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The first Blitz: German Zeppelin raids on London during the First World War
Centenary News contributor Dan Hayes reports on the First World War Zeppelin air raids that brought terror to London in 1915 and 1916.
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The first Blitz: German Zeppelin raids on London during the First World War
Centenary News contributor Dan Hayes reports on the First World War Zeppelin air raids that brought terror to London in 1915 and 1916.
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First World War paintings in Greenwich “War Artists at Sea” exhibition
Paintings from the First World War are featured in a series of exhibitions depicting warfare at sea which has opened at Royal Museums Greenwich in London.
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Do Wilfred Owen’s poems mask the “true fighting spirit” of those who fought?
Postgraduate poetry student Christian Groves asks whether seeing the First World War through Wilfred Owen’s poems masks the true fighting spirit and patriotic passion of those who fought.
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Do Wilfred Owen’s poems mask the “true fighting spirit” of those who fought?
Postgraduate poetry student Christian Groves asks whether seeing the First World War through Wilfred Owen's poems masks the true fighting spirit and patriotic passion of those who fought.
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Cross & Cockade International: First World War Aviation Society CCI Seminar 2014
Cross & Cockade International is holding its 2014 Seminar – which will commemorate the early years of the First World War in the air.
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Letters written by students from First World War battlefields to their professor go on show
Four letters written by students from the battlefields of the First World War to their history professor are to be seen in public for the first time in England.
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BBC series telling “local stories from a global conflict” launches on February 24
The BBC has given a taste of some of the stories about life on the UK home front which will feature in a major First World War series running on BBC local radio and regional television.
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Letters written by students from First World War battlefields to their professor exhibited
Mike Swain reports on a new exhibition of letters – written by students to their professor during the First World War – which is being held at the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library.
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