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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. FIRST WORLD WAR SEMINAR SERIES 2019-20

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    In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History/Gateways to the First World War, University of Kent present a sixth series of eight seminars on Thursday evening,...

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  2. Seminar: ‘Preparing the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for the next hundred years: horticultural challenges in a changing environment.’ - Gareth Hardware

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    This paper will explore the challenges and tasks facing the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in a changing world.

  3. Seminar: 'Imagining the West Indian soldier: from empire to multicultural commemoration' - Richard Smith

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    The role of the 16,000–strong British West Indies Regiment in the First World War has been recuperated from a marginalized afterthought in accounts of the British imperial war effort to occupy a more central, even...

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  4. Seminar: ‘Reconstructing Flanders fields after the Great War’ - Dries Claeys

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    Although the war damage in Belgium was nowhere near the scale of the French regions dévastées, the Belgian countryside as well had to be restored. This was particularly the case in Ypres and its surrounding areas.

  5. Seminar: ‘An elegy of mud, blood and darkness: Australian war writing and the third battle of Ypres’ - Matt Haultain-Gall

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    ‘The year 1917 had been one of disaster for our arms in all save the Messines attack’ wrote the Australian ex-serviceman G.D. Mitchell in Backs to the Wall. Few of his comrades would have disagreed.

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