UK Government and Charity Fund Auschwitz School Trips
The UK government in conjunction with the Holocaust Educational Trust is currently funding visits to Auschwitz by two pupils from each school in the UK. This mirrors the position adopted by David...
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The Great War archive online (“Europeana collections 1914-1918″)
The “Europeana Collections 1914-1918″ program is an online corpus dedicated to the Great War. Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War...
View ArticleThe Pilgrimage to the IJsertoren: Flemish nationalism and Great War...
By Laurence van Ypersele and Ben Wellings This year, as every year since 1922, the Yser Pilgrimage took place on the last Sunday of August. This annual ceremony, that remembers and commemorates Flemish...
View ArticleGreat War Seminars in Paris
For those living in or visiting Paris at the moment, two research seminars on the Great War are particularly indicated. Both have been running for several years and both are public and free. I have...
View ArticleControversy over Commemoration of World War I in France
The French government has issued a text outlining its proposals for commemoration of the Grande Guerre 2014-2018. In fact its plan is to commemorate during this period events from both World Wars...
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In Flanders Fields Declaration
By Laurence van Ypersele and Ben Wellings The “In Flanders Fields Draft Declaration’ was tabled for discussion by the government of Flanders in the summer of 2010. The politics surrounding this Draft...
View ArticleChristmas Speech Fuels Belgian Memory of War
Political controversy over the memory of the inter-War period and Europe’s fascist era has erupted in Belgium in the wake of King Albert II’s Christmas Speech. Albert referred to the dangers of...
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Histories of Forgetting
New in print, the latest issue of E-rea, Aix-Marseille University’s electronic journal of anglophone studies, takes as its theme Histories of Forgetting in the English and French-speaking Worlds,...
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Review of Romain Fathi: Représentations muséales du corps combattant de 14-18
Représentations muséales du corps combattant de 14-18: The Australian War Memorial de Canberra au prisme de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne In this study of the Australian War Memorial...
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CFP – War Memories: Commemoration, Re-enactment, Writings of War in the...
Conference organised by the European University of Brittany (Rennes 2, France) and the Royal Military College (Kingston, Canada) Université Européenne de Bretagne – Rennes 2, France 17, 18, 19 June...
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Planning for First World War commemoration in Australia and the UK
Media reports in Australia and the UK are beginning to reveal official plans for First World War commemorative activities in both countries. In Australia, the new conservative coalition government, led...
View Article‘Réformer, réunir, réussir’ – French President François Hollande’s Slogan for...
On 7 November the French President François Hollande launched the programme of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, using the opportunity to draw lessons – as he sees them – for...
View ArticleAustralia, 11 November 2013: Commemorative event commemorates commemorative...
Twenty years after the interring of the Unknown Australian Soldier at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, former Prime Minister Paul Keating returned to the site of his eulogy – now inscribed in...
View ArticleFrance Proposes 80 World War I Sites for Heritage Listing
France has put forward 80 World War I sites for listing by the Unesco World Heritage Organisation. The sites include some battlefields but above all cemeteries and memorials. To the criticism that a...
View ArticleNicolas Offenstadt: ‘What is at Stake in Commemoration of the First World War’
Nicolas Offenstadt, one of the leading French historians of the First World War, recently gave an interview to the journal Caesar (reprinted in Mediapart 25 January) on what is at stake in remembrance...
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