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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. CALL FOR PAPERS: Hidden Secrets of Chatham Dockyard and Its Defences

    News

    Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust’s first annual conference on Chatham Dockyard and its Defences

    Call for Papers: Chatham Historic Dockyard, 24th November 2017.

    HMS Hawkins
    HMS Hawkins © IWM (Q 23371)

  2. Conference: Nurses on the Front Line of Wound Care

    Event
    Gateways Event

    Nurses, historians and other interested parties are invited to attend a conference and exhibition exploring the history and contemporary clinical frontline of wound care.

    A ward in the No. 83 Dublin Hospital at Boulogne
    © IWM (Q 108196) A ward in the No. 83 Dublin Hospital at Boulogne

  3. Nurses on the Frontline of wound care: Public panel discussion & exhibition

    Event
    Gateways Event

    Join us for afternoon tea, a performance based on WW1 nurses’ diaries, a visit to our exhibition and a lively panel discussion featuring five-minute talks and discussion with researchers, nurses and historians reporting...

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    Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler
    Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler IWM WWC H21-9-1

  4. No Parades - New Project by Away From the Western Front

    Project

    Away from the Western Front invites community choirs, musicians, singers and brass bands to perform its new First World War song ‘No Parades’

    Recruits in Jamaica 1916 © IWM (Q 52423)
    Recruits in Jamaica 1916 © IWM (Q 52423)

  5. CALL FOR PAPERS: The FWW at Sea - Conflict, Culture and Commemoration

    News

    Royal Museums, Greenwich and Gateways to the First World War

    Call for Papers:

    The First World War at Sea: Conflict, Culture and Commemoration

    SS Chyebassa, a merchant ship of the British India Line, 1917.
    © IWM (Q 94607) SS Chyebassa, a merchant ship of the British India Line, 1917.
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