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Restored First World War ship on show at Portsmouth Dockyard
The First World War monitor HMS M33 is the latest addition to the collection of warships on display at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard. Restored at a cost of £2.5m, largely paid for by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the vessel saw service … Continue reading
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Tagged 1915, 1918, First World War, First World War Centenary, Gallipoli, HMS M33, museums, news, Portsmouth, Royal Navy, Russia, UK News, WW1
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La Grand Guerre at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge is marking the Centenary of the First World War with an exhibition entitled: La Grande Guerre: French prints of the First World War. The display comprises 36 colour lithographs and woodcuts from the print series La … Continue reading
WW1 exhibition comes to London Transport Museum
Goodbye Piccadilly – from Home Front to Western Front will open at the London Transport Museum on 16 May 2014. The exhibition will tell the story of Londoners during the First World War and will consider how the conflict affected … Continue reading
Welsh trench experience brings history to life
A trench system has been created to educate school children across Wales about life on the Western Front in World War I. Wales Online reports that the Back to the Front Experience has been created at Morfa Bay Adventure in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Edwards, centenary, history, Morfa, museums, trench, Wales
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Scottish World War I poster collection to appear online
A collection of World War I propaganda posters is to be made available online as a digital archive. Around 300 posters that were collected by the secretary of the McLean Museum in Greenock, Scotland, during the conflict are being digitised … Continue reading
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Tagged centenary, Greenock, Inverclyde, museums, news, posters, propaganda, Scotland
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World War I exhibition to open in Portsmouth
A World War One Remembrance Centre is scheduled to open in Portsmouth on Saturday 30 March. The centre, at Fort Widley on Portsdown Hill, explores the conflict through photos and documents, many of them gathered from local people. The Portsmouth … Continue reading
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Tagged events, exhibitions, Fort Widley, museums, Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth
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Eyam Museum, Derbyshire, to stage World War I exhibition
Eyam Museum in Derbyshire intends to put on a World War I exhibition thanks to a £21,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. News website ThisisDerbyshire.co.uk reports the exhibition will open in March 2014. As well as the centenary of … Continue reading
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Tagged Derbyshire, exhibitions, Eyam, Heritage Lottery Fund, museums
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RAF Museum secures lottery funding for World War I showcase
London’s Royal Air Force Museum’s plans to develop its Grahame-White Factory building into a showcase for its World War I collections have received initial support of £74,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The new exhibition, entitled the First Air War, … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, exhibitions, First Air War Objects, museums, RAF, RAF Museum
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Thessaloniki hospital exhibition tells tale of Balkan front
An exhibition entitled Army of the Orient in the Balkans: Archaeological Testimonials of a Hospital in Thermi/Sedes, has opened at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Greece. Many of the items on show were recovered from the site of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anastasios Antonaras, archeology, Balkans, exhibitions, Greece, hospital, museums, news, Thessaloniki
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World War I New Zealand soldiers shown of Flickr
Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) is using photsite Flickr in a bid to find out more about the country’s World War I soldiers. The museum has added a large number of photographs that were taken in … Continue reading
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Tagged colonial, flickr, identification, museums, New Zealand, photography, Wellington
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First World War Centenary, 1914-1918 