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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. Professor Albert Grundlingh Lecture (Canterbury): Mutating Memories and the Making of a Wartime Myth in South Africa: Remembering the SS Mendi disaster, 1917-2007

    Event
    Gateways Event

    The SS Mendi, carrying the last detachment of the South African Native Labour Contingent to work as non-combatants in France during the First World War, sank just off the Isle of Wight on 21 February 1917.

  2. Indian Soldiers in World War One: A talk by Lynelle Howson

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    A talk by Lynelle Howson, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, at Hownslow Library on Thursday 3 December.

    Free admission.

  3. Notes & Swearies: Obscene Language in Soldiers' Speech & Songs

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    A Lecture by Professor Mark Connelly at the Royal Engineers Museum on Thursday 26 November, 7pm.

    2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Division, Bois Grenier Sector, March-June 1915. Men in the support line smoking and playing the accordion. © IWM (Q 48944)

  4. 'World War One aerial photography in Belgium: a landscape archaeological perspective', a talk by Dr. Birger Stichelbaut

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    Gateways Event
    Organised by Gateways to the First World War

    During the First World War, millions of aerial photographs were taken by all fighting countries, documenting a cultural landscape from which the relicts sometimes remain visible as scars on the landscape.

    Airco DH 4 flying over a heavily-shelled area south of the River Scarpe near Biache-Saint-Vaast (upper right), east of Arras.
    Airco DH 4 flying over a heavily-shelled area south of the River Scarpe near Biache-Saint-Vaast (upper right), east of Arras. © IWM (HU 91047)

  5. Discovering the First World War: An event with the Heritage Lottery Fund

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    Gateways Event
    Supported by Gateways to the First World War

    Are you interested in doing something to commemorate the centenary of the First World War in your area?

    Window cleaners employed by the Mayfair Window Cleaning Co., London, 1917. © IWM (Q 28035)
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