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Exhibition focuses on Artists Rifles in the First World War
Artworks produced by members of the Artists Rifles – 28th (County of London) Battalion of The London Regiment – will be the focus of touring exhibition in Hampshire this April focused on the Centenary of the First World War. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists Rifles – 28th (County of London) Battalion of The London Regiment, Centenary of the First World War, events, Gosport Discovery Centre, Hampshire, Imperial War Museum, news, Sainsbury Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK News, Willis Museum, WW1
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Exhibition focuses on Gordon Highlanders in the First World War
An exhibition focusing on the Gordon Highlanders and their experience during the first months of the First World War has opened at the regiment’s museum in Aberdeen. Shattered Hopes: The Gordon Highlanders in 1914 follows the unit throughout the battles … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, Aberdeen, Belgium, Captain James Brooke, Centenary of the First World War, Christmas Truce, events, Flanders, France, Gordon Highlanders, Le Cateau, Mons, news, Scotland, UK News, VC, Victoria Cross, Ypres
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British Library launches First World War website
The UK’s British Library has launched a website dedicated to the Centenary of the First World War. It combines 50 scholarly articles about the First World War with a wide range of archive material that covers a large number of … Continue reading
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Tagged British Library, Centenary of the First World War, European news, Europeana 1914-1918, events, learning, news, teaching World War I, UK News, WW1
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WW1 Centenary exhibition at Jewish Museum in Vienna
On 3 April the Jewish Museum in Vienna will open an exhibition focused on the Centenary of the First World War entitled Doomsday – Jewish Life and Death in World War I. The show considers how the First World War … Continue reading
Women and Industry in the First World War at IWM North
Women and Industry in the First World War, at IWM North in Manchester, is a photographic display what considers the role of female workers during the First World War. The display, outside IWM North, comprises six images by the official … Continue reading
RAF Museum announces World War I Centenary events
Throughout 2014 the Royal Air Force Museum will be hosting various events that will commemorate the outbreak of World War I. Three events have already been announced A story workshop for children, entitled Where the Poppies Now Grow, will be … Continue reading
West London call for World War I memorabilia
Officials at the London Borough of Hillingdon are asking local residents to share their World War I memorabilia. The west London council is planning its commemoration of the Centenary and local historians are looking for anyone with letters, photographs, diaries, … Continue reading
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Tagged Centenary of World War I, events, Indian troops in World War I, London, memorabilia, news, Western Front, Women
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Hobbit author JRR Tolkien’s WW1 revolver on show
A revolver owned by scholar and writer JRR Tolkien during his World War I service has gone on show at Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, as part of the preliminaries of its commemoration of the Centenary. Tolkien served as … Continue reading
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Tagged 11th Battalion, Battle of the Somme 1916, Centenary of World War I, events, Frodo Baggins, Graham Boxer, IWM North, JRR Tolkien and World War I, Lancashire Fusiliers, news, Sam Gamgee, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Webley Mk VI
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Lost Diggers of Vignacourt at Australian National War Memorial
Remember Me; the Lost Diggers of Vignacourt is one of the exhibitions currently on show at the Australian National War Memorial. Vignacourt was a small French village in a rear area of the Allied forces that served as a staging … Continue reading
Scottish rugby players killed in World War I remembered in Edinburgh
Scottish international rugby players who were killed in World War I are to be honoured at an event in December at Edinburgh Central Library. Scotland lost 30 international rugby players (including five captains) during the war – more than any … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, 1917, Aisne, Alistair McEwen, Arras, Centenary of World War I, Edinburgh Central Library, EHD Sewell, events, Faubourg d’Amiens, France, German Spring Offensive of 1918, Lieutenant Ronald Simson, news, rugby, Scotland, Scotland’s War Project, The Rugby Roll of Honour, William Hutchison
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First World War Centenary, 1914-1918 