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June 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Walks of remembrance to mark First World War Centenary at National Trust sites in UK

The National Trust is inviting people to mark the First World War Centenary by joining silent walks of remembrance at 23 of the historic sites in its care across England and Wales.

June 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Giant photographs of pebble reflect “traumatised” landscape of war

Mike Swain visits Orford Ness nature reserve on the British Suffolk coast to see an exhibition of unusual photographs by installation artist Anya Gallaccio of a pebble picked from a bombing range.

Author: By Mike Swain

June 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Giant photographs of pebble reflect “traumatised” landscape of war

Mike Swain visits Orford Ness nature reserve on the British Suffolk coast to see an exhibition of unusual photographs by installation artist Anya Gallaccio of a pebble picked from a bombing range.

June 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News archived by US Library of Congress

The US Library of Congress has selected Centenary News to be archived as part of the Library’s collection of websites marking the Centenary of the First World War.

June 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

National Trust launches walks of remembrance to mark First World War Centenary at historic UK sites

The National Trust invites people to mark the First World War Centenary by joining silent walks of remembrance at 23 historic sites in England and Wales.

End Date: 30 Aug 2014

June 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War veteran moved into place for new RAF Museum exhibition in London

One of the most famous fighters of the First World War, a Sopwith Camel, has been moved to a building at the RAF Museum in London dedicated to a new exhibition about the growth of air power.

June 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Lord Parekh: “British Expeditionary Force was no match for the Germans and so Britain immediately turned to India for help”

Lord Bhikhu Parekh, a peer in the British House of Lords, has delivered a speech at Asia House about India’s contribution to the First World War, which he described as “greater than the rest of the Commonwealth put together”.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New beers to commemorate First World War Centenary

In a project to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War, twelve beers will be brewed over the five year period to 2019.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News in Brief: 14th – 20th June 2014

Centenary News in Brief this week includes: Watford Football Club’s new away kit marks the Centenary; the only Australian horse to return from the First World War is honoured; America’s World War One Historical Association will mark the Archduke’s assassination; and the National Memorial Arboretum in England will hold a First World War poetry evening.

June 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Sex and the Somme. Soldiers visited brothels to escape the “lunatic world of war.”

Mike Swain listens to a lunchtime lecture given by UCL Teaching Fellow Dr Clare Makepeace entitled “Sex and the Somme” about the hundreds of thousands of First World War soldiers who used brothels.

Author: Mike Swain