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Auckland Mayor Len Brown and Auckland War Memorial Museum Director Roy Clare today announced the themes forming the basis of Auckland’s contribution to WW100.
Seventeen First World War centenary projects have been granted close to $1.7 million in funding by the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board.
Papers are invited for a multi-disciplinary conference rethinking New Zealand’s connections with and contribution to ‘the Great War’.
Applications are now open for the second round of Lottery Grants funding for First World War centenary projects. Funding criteria changes mean overseas projects, art and sports events might also be eligible.
Five years of commemorations to mark the centenary of the First World War began this morning with the unveiling of the National Cross of Remembrance at Te Papa.
The Gibson Group, with funding from New Zealand on Air, is set to produce an innovative First World War documentary series to mark the centenary of the war in 2014.
A new book by Philippa Werry aims to get children interested in Anzac Day. "It would be easy for it to become irrelevant for children, and for them to think that’s something that happened a long time ago and doesn’t impact me."
How much do New Zealanders know about New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War, and the war’s impact on our country?
Excerpts from New Zealand diaries written a century ago are now appearing on the most modern of communication media, Twitter.
In 1921, a trophy was presented to Plimmerton School to remember First World War casualty Private Arthur Webb and his ambition to be a teacher. Seventy years later, the restored Webb Memorial Trophy is back in the school’s care.
We're pleased to welcome Andrew Matheson as the Director of WW100, New Zealand’s First World War Centenary Programme.
The battlefields of Mesen fell silent almost a century ago but another New Zealand soldier's sacrifice was remembered overnight (NZ time) in Belgium.
