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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. OUT OF THE DOLL'S HOUSE: What did the women do?

    Event
    Organised by East Sussex County Council First World War Commemorations

    The project is FREE will run for 10 sessions, beginning on 7 July 2015. Using creative writing, artwork, photography, collage we will recreate women's wartime lives. The results will be exhibited at Hastings Museum in mid...

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  2. Oh What a Lovely War: a red rag for a certain kind of bull

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    A blogpost by Mark Connelly

    Goodness me, how the very mention of Joan Littlewood’s 1963 ‘theatrical entertainment’, as she termed it, or the 1969 film version directed by Richard Attenborough, can get a certain kind of historian of the Great War...

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  3. The First World War: Commemoration & Memory

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    Gateways Event

    The First World War: Commemoration and Memory is an international conference taking place on 27 February 2016 at Imperial War Museum North.

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  4. Physics and the Great War

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    Arguably the First World War saw the greatest advent of new science and technology and the role of science in warfare than any conflict hitherto.

  5. Guided walk - South Downs WW1 Seaford Camp

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    Organised by East Sussex County Council First World War Commemorations

    The walk will give a potted history of the Great War camps at Seaford - the main emphasis will be on examining the surviving remains that are still visible on the slopes of Seaford Head. Presented by the 'Home Fires' WW1...

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