Centenary News in brief this week includes: a new exhibition on ‘Portugal and the Great War’ at the National Library of Portugal; a talk on Ottoman Perspectives of the conflict at Zurich University; a petition in the UK for Edith Cavell to feature on the £2 coin; and a Centenary conference at Georgia Fwinnett College, America.
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Washington Art historian Mark Levitch has embarked on an ambitious Memorial Inventory Project to uncover the 10,000 or more American World War One memorials scattered across the country.
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Washington Art historian Mark Levitch has embarked on an ambitious Memorial Inventory Project to uncover the 10,000 or more American World War One memorials scattered across the country.
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Centenary News in Brief this week includes: America marks its Memorial Day at cemeteries around the world; Canada announces funding to restore its Japanese Canadian War Memorial; the Help for Heroes 4×4 challenge reaches £750,000 in fundraising; and Australia commemorates the disappearance of submarine AE1.
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Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about Flanders House's annual memorial service at the Clinton War Memorial as the Centenary approaches.
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Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about Flanders House’s annual memorial service at the Clinton War Memorial as the Centenary approaches.
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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.
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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.
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The National World War I Museum in Kansas City, USA, is holding a ceremony and programme of events on the 28th June to mark the Centenary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination.
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Dr. Jillian Davidson writes for Centenary News about the Western Front Association East Coast symposium – a biannual meeting of the American WFA.
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