Gateways to the First World War

About Us

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.

Watch our short films:
Gateways at Broadwater Farm and Not Far from the Front.

Fields Unsown Exhibition, Mitcham Library

Event

An exhibition of the research and original documents and photographs which informed the Fields Unsown project.
'Fighting for the Vote: Science and Suffrage in World War I', by Dr Patricia Fara

Event

HG Wells Science & Society Lecture 2015

Keynes Lecture Theatre 5, University of Kent
Whose Remembrance? War and Empire

Event

Gateways Event

A film presentation and panel discussion at the University of Leeds organised by Legacies of War in partnership with the Imperial War Museum and Gateways to the First World War.

© IWM (Q 1201) Troops of the West Indies Regiment cleaning their rifles on the Albert - Amiens road, September 1916.
The 1914 House Christmas, Preston Manor, Brighton

Event

1914 was probably the most poignant Christmas of the 20th century. Find out how people marked the season not only in Britain but across nations affected by war.
'Not About Heroes', Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells

Event

Not About Heroes is the extraordinary story of two of the 'Great War' poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, their friendship, their inter-dependency, their poetry.

About Us

Fields Unsown Exhibition, Mitcham Library

'Fighting for the Vote: Science and Suffrage in World War I', by Dr Patricia Fara

HG Wells Science & Society Lecture 2015

Whose Remembrance? War and Empire

The 1914 House Christmas, Preston Manor, Brighton

'Not About Heroes', Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells