Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Projects
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Team
  • Volunteer
  • Contact Us

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

  1. World War One and Africa: Legacies of Conflict

    Event
    Supported by Gateways to the First World War

    VENUE: COUNCIL CHAMBERS, SWALE BOROUGH COUNCIL, SWALE HOUSE, EAST STREET, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT, ME10 3HT

    KEY SPEAKERS:

    DR DANIEL GILFOYLE

    JOHN SIBLON

    DR ANNE SAMSON

    DR GEORGE...

    Read more

  2. BREAKING THE MYTHS - WORLD WAR 1 AND AFRICA

    Event
    Supported by Gateways to the First World War

    PHOENIX HOUSE, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT, ME10 4BX

    A HERITAGE LOTTERY FUNDED PROJECT THAT EXPLORES AFRICAN INVOLVEMENT IN WWI:

    • How Africans were involved in WWI

  3. Portsmouth Poetry to mark First World War Centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele

    Project

    Local cultural organisation ‘Portsmouth Poetry’ has been awarded a grant of £10,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project “I Died In Hell” which will commemorate the...

    Read more
    (C) IWM (E(AUS) 1220)
    (C) IWM (E(AUS) 1220)

  4. Voices of the Great War!

    Blog Post
    A blogpost by Helen Brooks

    On 19th February 2017 at the Theatre Royal Brighton, the Threadbare Theatre Company, (in association with Gateways), presented two short plays from iconic...

    Read more

  5. Darker Sides of the First World War

    Event
    Gateways Event

    Grimond Building, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

    FWW Soldiers drinking on the Western Front 1914-1918
    IWM Q635 British Soldiers on the Western Front Estaminet 1914-1918
  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • next ›
  • last »
  • Supported by:

Newsletter Signup

Please use the form below to sign up to our email newsletter. By submitting this form you agree to our Privacy Policy.

* required field

Copyright © 2014-2020, Gateways to the First World War, All Rights Reserved.