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Gateways to the First World War is a centre for public engagement with the Great War centenary, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Our aim is to encourage and support public interest in the centenary through a range of events and activities such as open days and study days, advice on access to materials and expertise, and signposting for other resources and forms of support.
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  1. The impact of WW1 on a local York community

    Project

    A new local project is based at a community centre to the south of the city walls of York.

    Millfield Road peace celebration, 1919
    Millfield Road peace celebration, 1919 (reproduced with permission of Clements Hall Local History Group)

  2. Mapping the national impact of the Jutland Battle: civic and community responses during the First World War

    Project

    The history of the battle of Jutland has been dominated by debates on naval strategy and assessments of which nation could claim ultimate victory.

  3. New Graphic Novel Explores Gallipoli Campaign

    News

    12th July 1915 saw the centenary of the final attempt by Allied Forces to take the ‘strategically important’ hill of Achi Baba, a critical cornerstone in the Gallipoli Campaign’s objective to advance into Constantinople...

  4. Women Engineers in the Great War and After

    Event
    Gateways Event
    Organised by Gateways to the First World War

    Women’s professional participation in UK engineering began in earnest during the First World War and The Women’s Engineering Society was set up in 1919 to sustain this initiative during peacetime.

    Women touring a power station, Sunday Pictorial, 1938 (IET Archives)
    Women touring a power station, Sunday Pictorial, 1938 (IET Archives)

  5. 'Till the Boys Come Home: Music & Morale in the First World War

    Event
    Gateways Event
    Organised by Gateways to the First World War

    A free Lecture-Concert by Professor Mark Connelly and Dr Emma Hanna with the Invicta Concert Band on Tuesday 22 March.

    Colyer-Fergusson Concert Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury...

    Buglers of 5th (London) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery at Kennington Park, 1915. © IWM (Q 53975)
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