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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. Trench Brothers

    Project

    Trench Brothers is an imaginative and inspiring project taking the incredible story of our Great War ethnic minority soldiers to London’s primary schools.

    Trench Brothers performance at the Brighton Dome. Photo: Clive Barda
    Trench Brothers performance at the Brighton Dome. Photo: Clive Barda

  2. Football and the First World War

    Event
    Gateways Event

    To mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, University of Kent staff will play a football match and officially twin a sports pitch with the Flanders Peace Field in Messines, Belgium.

    Image: Officers versus other ranks football match played by members of the 26th Divisional Ammunition Train, ASC near their camp, just outside the city of Salonika, Christmas Day 1915. © IWM (Q 31574)
    Image: Officers versus other ranks football match played by members of the 26th Divisional Ammunition Train, ASC near their camp, just outside the city of Salonika, Christmas Day 1915. © IWM (Q 31574)

  3. Young people's group New Focus invited to House of Commons

    News

    New Focus, a dynamic group of young people aged 16 to 25 based at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, has been invited attend a special parliamentary reception at the House of Commons on 31 October 2018.

    The New Focus team at the Imperial War Museum, London © Impressions Gallery
    The New Focus team at the Imperial War Museum, London © Impressions Gallery

  4. Seminar: 'Harvey Cushing in Flanders Fields' - Professor Toni Lerut

    Event
    Gateways Event

    The name of Dr Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) is inextricably linked with the homonymous syndrome and disease. But the merits of Harvey Cushing reach out much further than that.

    'Harvey Williams Cushing. Photograph by W.(?)W.B.' . Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY
    'Harvey Williams Cushing. Photograph by W.(?)W.B.' . Credit: Wellcome Collection.

  5. Remembrance and Identity. The Somme: 1916 to the Present Day

    Event

    A free public lecture on Friday 2nd November to celebrate the centenary of the end of World War I by Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent.

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