World War One

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War Horse film costumes join Spielberg and cast's artwork at National Army Museum

Uniforms and props from the Stephen Spielberg blockbuster War Horse have joined the National Army Museum's War Horse: Fact and Fiction exhibition in London.

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Tank Museum acquires replica Mark IV World War I Tank from Steven Spielberg's War Horse

The Tank Museum, at Bovington in Dorset, has acquired the working replica World War One tank used in the hit Stephen Spielberg film War Horse.

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Imperial War Museum's WWI Centenary Galleries Win Heritage Lottery Fund Support

The Imperial War Museum’s ambitious plans to mark the centenary of the First World War received a welcome boost this week with news of a funding green flag from the HLF.

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British Library joins collections from seven countries for Europeana World War I project

More than 400,000 resources from World War I will be made available to the public online as part of an ambitious alliance to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict.

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Imperial War Museum commemorates Armistice Day by releasing photos of WWI dead on Flickr

The Imperial War Museum has launched a new initiative through the social networking and photo sharing site Flickr that aims to put faces to the names on WWI memorials.

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HLF releases extra funding for organisations marking the centenary of World War One

The Heritage Lottery Fund is actively seeking organisations who need funding for heritage projects commemorating the First World War.

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Museums and Heritage Sites mark Armistice Day and Remembrance Day 2011

All over Britain wreaths will be laid at War memorials as museums and heritage sites across the country mark the occasion with special events.

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Imperial War Museum reveals new acquisition for 125th anniversary of Siegfried Sassoon's birth

A rare autographed manuscript of famous anti-war poem The General, by First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, has been acquired by the Imperial War Museum.

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Spectacular artillery collection from across the world in shiny new home at Fort Nelson

The historic Fareham site prepares to unveil new galleries and visitor centres following a £3.5 million renovation campaign achieved in less than a year.

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Henry Allingham's medals found in toolbox go on show at Fleet Air Arm Museum

The Fleet Air Arm Museum is displaying the medals of late World War I veteran Henry Allingham after his grandsons discovered them at the bottom of his old toolbox.

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War Horse heads to English Heritage Festival of History for dramatic World War I trench recreation

The set building team behind Stephen Spielberg's War Horse movie will be at the Festival of History in Northamptonshire with a recreated World War I battlefield.

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Heroic wartime women star in Land Girls and Lumber Jills at National Museum of Costume

A major show in Edinburgh remembers thousands of women who kept the country going during the two world wars.

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Bury Fusilier Museum to tell the story of 3,000 military medals with £5,000 online database

The public will be able to search for medals won by battlefield heroes as the museum plans an innovative web archive.

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Last Post: Remembering the First World War at The Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham

A Postal Museum and Cabinet War Rooms show reveals what happened when 75,000 post office staff left for World War One.

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War Correspondent: Reporting under fire since 1914 at Imperial War Museum North

Imperial War Museum North looks at the changing role of the war correspondent from 1914 to the present.

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