World War One Collection

A collection of items about the First World War Centenary compiled by Adrian Van Klaveren (Controller Great War Centenary BBC)

By Adrian Van Klaveren

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How deadly was the poison gas of WW1?
BBC News - Marek Pruszewicz
The first major gas attack in war occurred 100 years ago this weekend, in what is now Poland. Gas soon became a routine feature of trench warfare, horrifying soldiers more than any conventional weapon.
Jan 30, 2015
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10 Baffling World War I Mysteries We May Never Solve
listverse.com - Debra Kelly
Before the days of social media, history had to settle for being written by the winners. Which means some things have tended to hog the spotlight, …
Jan 10, 2015
Adrian Van Klaveren
10 Uncovered World War One Photos Provide A Rare, Candid Glimpse Into Trench Life
all-that-is-interesting.com - Erin Kelly
Photograph of George Hackney taken at Poulainville, Picardy, Northern France, in October of 1915. Belfast, Ireland native George Hackney was like many …
July 10
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Forgotten footballers who died in World War One remembered in new fund
The Telegraph - By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent
Graves of footballers who died of their First World War injuries when they returned to England to be restored The forgotten role of hundreds of professional footballers who gave up the game to fight in
Dec 24, 2014
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Sainsbury’s Christmas ad is a dangerous and disrespectful masterpiece
The Guardian - Ally Fogg
In making the first world war beautiful to flog groceries the film-makers have disrespected the millions who suffered in the trenches What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Not only the monstrous
Nov 13, 2014
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Still Paying World War I Debt, 100 Years Later
The Atlantic - Kabir ChibberQuartz
It has been 100 years since the start of the First World War, which was fought for four years and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 soldiers a day. Countries in Europe began marking the centenary earlier
Nov 3, 2014
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History and all its grisly facts are worth more than the illusion of memory
The Guardian - Jonathan Jones
In 1924 the German artist Otto Dix depicted a skull, lying on the ground, a home to worms. They crawl out of its eye sockets, nasal opening and mouth, and wriggle among patches of hair and a black moustache
Oct 31, 2014
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Queen Pays Tribute to First World War Personnel in Vast Field of Poppies at Tower of London
International Business Times (GB) - David Sim
The Queen has paid tribute to those who died in the First World War by laying a wreath of ceramic poppies at the Tower of London. She and Prince …
Oct 16, 2014
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Back to Ypres Salient tomorrow retracing last steps of soldier who died 21-10-1914 #WW1 #WW1Centenary http://t.co/oGclI3J9dZ
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Oct 19, 2014
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The slang words that defined the First World War
The Telegraph - By Telegraph reporters
This year's theme for English Language Day is 'The Language of War'. Here we look at the slang words that featured heavily in the First World War The date for English Language Day is chosen because on
Oct 13, 2014
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French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in first world war
The Guardian - Anne Penketh
The name of dragoons officer Hubert Rochereau is commemorated on a war memorial in Bélâbre, his native village in central France, along with those of other young men who lost their lives in the first war.
Oct 14, 2014
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/arts/design/first-world-war-galleries-reopen-at-imperial-war-museum.html?_r=0
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Aug 16, 2014
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Simon Heffer: First World War, the battle of the historians
newstatesman.com - Simon Heffer
From almost the opening shot, the Great War has been fought over by historians wishing to interpret and understand what happened and why. Their …
Jul 3, 2014
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10 films on the Great War
irishtimes.com
As was the case with novelists and poets, film-makers took an altogether less heroic approach to the first World War than they did to the second A …
3 days ago
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In war and peace, Britain can be proud
The Telegraph - By Telegraph View
When plans were made for the commemoration of the First World War, it seemed like an exercise in history – a necessary and salutary process of remembrance, but not one that could have much resonance in
Aug 4, 2014
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1914: the Great War has become a nightly pornography of violence
The Guardian - The Guardian view
Britain’s commemoration of the Great War has lost all sense of proportion. It has become a media theme park, an indigestible cross between Downton Abbey and a horror movie. I cannot walk down the street
Aug 4, 2014
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WW1: Aerial images reveal World War One's UK footprint
bbc.co.uk - Beth Rose
Aerial photographs which show the impact of World War One on the UK landscape have been released as part of a project to mark the war's centenary.
Jul 23, 2014
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BBC - World War One At Home, The Zeppelin Terror in London
bbc.co.uk
Presenter Ben Robinson follows the route of the most destructive Zeppelin attack of World War One on London. The clip is taken from the BBC WW1 At Home documentary broadcasting on Monday 2 June at 6.30pm
May 10, 2015
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Remembrance Day
First World War Centenary: we will remember them
www.gov.uk - Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Details of commemorative events to mark 100 years since Britain entered the First World War. Today (4 August) marks 100 years since Britain entered …
Jul 22, 2014
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BBC teams with British universities to offer online courses on WW1
thedrum.com - Ishbel Macleod
Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and The Open University will each deliver a web-based course exploring an aspect of WW1, with all courses open to anyone …
Jul 23, 2014
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Angela Merkel counters critics of Germany indifference to WW1 commemorations
The Telegraph - By Tony Paterson, Berlin
Chancellor inaugurates Berlin exhibit amid criticism that Germany has invested little in commemorating the centenary of the conflict Chancellor Angela Merkel opened a major exhibition marking the centenary
May 28, 2014
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BBC - Rising talent to lead BBC One’s First World War drama Passing Bells - Media Centre
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May 10, 2015
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World War I in Photos: Introduction
The Atlantic - Alan Taylor
A century ago, an assassin, a Serbian nationalist, killed the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary as he visited Sarajevo. This act was the catalyst for a massive conflict that lasted four years. More
Dec 27, 2013
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80 km of memories
dw.de - Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)
Every night at precisely 8 p.m., a delegation of buglers from the local fire brigade in Ypres, Belgium marches to the Menin Gate to play "The Last …
Apr 15, 2014
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South Africa
African victims of WWI largely forgotten
dw.de - Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)
The most impressive monument for African victims of the World War I (1914-1918) is not to be found in Africa but in France. At the battle of …
Apr 15, 2014
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Sport should always remember its debt to the first world war fallen
The Guardian - Tim Adams
Sport is important because it's not important. The truth of that paradox was never more valid than at the end of the 1913-14 season when, in the spring, footballers and rugby players were reaching the
Apr 12, 2014
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Home Fires
The New Yorker - George Packer
“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected,” Paul Fussell wrote in “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his classic study of the English literature of the First World War. “But the Great
Mar 31, 2014
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The BBC's Great War - the Beeb responds
opendemocracy.net
This is a typically challenging piece and it opens up a debate which we at the BBC very much welcome. From my perspective as Controller of the BBC’s …
Apr 3, 2014