A phD candidate from the University of Illinois in Chicago has uncovered previously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago digitised within the EFG1914 project. The footage from the collection of the EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam) shows the immediate aftermath of the disaster, which occurred when the Eastland capsized in the Chicago river in […]
2014-07-08 | With a ceremonial event, the United Nations will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War in the presence of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 6:30 pm local time, at the UN headquarters in New York. The event will be the only commemoration of WW1 that […]
2014-03-24 | On occasion of the current commemorations of World War One, the European Film Gateway is now presenting a virtual exhibition about the history of film during the war years. Users can view ca. 120 clips from historical films as well as selected film posters and other film-related materials, arranged in thematic sections such […]
2014-03-07 |Classroom4.eu starts an Essay Contest for European students from the age of 16 to 19. Pupils across Europe are doing research on the history of their city in 1914 to tell the other (hi)story of this year. The events in Europe at that time did not necessarily lead to war and people had different […]
2014-03-07 | In cooperation with 8 European countries, the Europeana1914-1918 project has digitised and made available 400,000 newspapers, maps, trench journals, photographs, posters, manuscripts, song lyrics and other rare historical documents. The conference “Rediscovering the war experience” brings together historians, archivists, curators and researchers to examine this vaste digital corpus from different thematic and historiographic aspects […]
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