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The Society News Feed Archive for: WW1 in the News
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BBC Four The Great War Interviews Collection
To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the BBC has released a collection of 13 previously unseen interviews with veterans and civilians filmed in the 1960s.
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Kate Adie, women historians and the First World War
Last week, I read Kate Adie’s article publicising her new book celebrating the diverse ways in which women worked in the First World War. In it she bemoans the fact that ‘the history of the war has been almost entirely written by men’
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"Letter from America" - Mike Neiberg on the upcoming centenary
Society member Mike Neiberg recently attended the International Centennial Planning Conference entitled “A CENTURY IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR” , held at the National World War One Museum in Kansas and gave a keynote speech entitled: ““The Outbreak of War in 1914: A... -
News: Ireland and the First World War
Project to bridge the gap between academic and public activity surrounding Ireland and the First World War
With Ireland’s ‘Decade of Commemorations’ underway, historians at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Exeter have created a special website to gather information and knowledge about Ireland’s involvement in the First World War.
The www.irelandWW1.org website project will collate research and event information...
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The First World War in the news - June 2008
The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
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The First World War in the news - May 2008
Fromelles dig finds WWI grave site
ABC Online – Australia
An excavation in north-eastern France has uncovered a mass grave where up to 170 Australian soldiers were buried in World War I. On the night of July 19, … -
Medal records online
A website fit for heroes: 14m first world war medals recorded online
Scans of record cards reveal exploits of 5.5m soldiers – and some famous
names- Esther Addley
- The Guardian,
- Wednesday February 20 2008
On June 8 1917 the London Gazette carried a report about Captain Albert
Ball, a fighter pilot who had been awarded the Victoria Cross “for most
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Royal Naval Division records online
Daily Telegraph: Online tribute to Winston’s Little Army
By Graham Tibbetts
Last Updated: 1:54am GMT 04/02/2008
The stirring exploits of a legendary fighting force nicknamed “Winston’s Little Army” are published online today, including the stories of the youngest officer to die in the First World War and one of its...
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France's Oldest WWI Veteran Dies
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‘Trenches full of heads …’ JB Priestley’s letters from the first world war revealed
Martin Wainwright
Friday November 16, 2007
The GuardianThe public will be able to read almost 50 unpublished letters from the first world war trenches by the writer JB Priestley, one of the last great literary voices of the conflict, from next month.
The archive of 47 letters and postcards to his father, sister and stepmother have been given to Bradford University...
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90th anniversary of Beersheba marked with re-enactment
FIFTY Australian riders in First World War kit and uniform will take to the saddle in southern Israel today to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Light Horsemen’s charge at Beersheba.
Their trek across the stony Negev Desert will end on Wednesday with a scaled-down re-enactment of the famous battle, in which an Anzac mounted infantry corps seized the ancient Bedouin town from the Turks with one of the last successful horse-borne charges in Western warfare.
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Washington Post: World War I Veteran Reflects on Lessons
By Fredrick Kunkle
One by one, members of the small crowd on a hilltop at Arlington National Cemetery approached the man who had beaten all the odds…
To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101576.html?referrer=emailarticle
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The Observer - 'Wrong man' in Kipling son's grave
War historians believe that a different officer who died at Loos in 1915 lies in cemetery
David Smith, Sunday November 4, 2007
The Observer‘Known unto God’ – the simple, consoling epitaph on the graves of nameless soldiers will resonate next week on Remembrance Sunday. It was penned by Rudyard Kipling, the writer whose own son went missing in action on a...
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The Observer - ‘Wrong man’ in Kipling son’s grave
War historians believe that a different officer who died at Loos in 1915 lies in cemetery
David Smith, Sunday November 4, 2007
The Observer‘Known unto God’ – the simple, consoling epitaph on the graves of nameless soldiers will resonate next week on Remembrance Sunday. It was penned by Rudyard Kipling, the writer whose own son went missing in action on a...
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Washington Post: D.C. War Memorial
Project Preservation: 8 Sites in D.C.
While maintaining a watchful eye on historic buildings in Washington, the D.C. Preservation League has created a list of “Most Endangered Places” to track particularly vulnerable real estate. Some of the following locations from previous lists have been saved, but others remain endangered.
D.C. War Memorial
Location: West Potomac Park
Status: EndangeredDespite its prime location near...
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The Experiences of a Very Unimportant Soldier
One man’s diary of his experiences on the Western Front have been published on-line by his grandson on this website.
The diary has been featured in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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The Spectator: I'll wear a poppy for the first time this year
I hate badges and ribbons, but this year I have decided to wear a poppy for the first time
By Matthew Parris, 7 November 2007[…] So why was it that last week at Marylebone Station, for the first time in my life, I found myself marching up to the elderly gentleman at his poppy stand and, without a moment’s...
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The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion
Theatre Review
World War I Veterans Face Sweet and Fitting Lie
By WILBORN HAMPTON
from the New York Times, October 27, 2007Two young men who have just returned from war meet one night at a college party and discover that their mutual abhorrence of what they have been through has led them to a deep loathing of the politicians...
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The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion
Theatre Review
World War I Veterans Face Sweet and Fitting Lie
By WILBORN HAMPTON
from the New York Times, October 27, 2007Two young men who have just returned from war meet one night at a college party and discover that their mutual abhorrence of what they have been through has led them to a deep loathing of the politicians...
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Internet archive puts flesh on the bones of first world war soldiers' experiences
Records on web detail injuries, character, appearance and illnesses.
Where to trace your genealogy on the web.
Esther Addley
Wednesday August 8, 2007
GuardianLike many men of his generation and experiences, Pattie Townsend’s father didn’t talk much about the Great War.She knew he had enlisted in 1914, full...
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