First World War Centenary Partnership Programme Josie Gale Centenary Programme Museum Liaison Officer for English Regions

1. First World War Centenary Partnership
Programme
Josie Gale
Centenary Programme Museum Liaison Officer for English Regions

2. UK Government
Wales
Sir Deian Hopkin
Scotland
Prof. Norman Drummond
Northern Ireland
Mr Jeffrey Donaldson
UK
Rt Hon Maria Miller MP
Dr Andrew Murrison MP

3. Examples of websites
• ww100.govt.nz
• anzaccentenary.gov.au
• awm.gov.au/1914-1918/
• flandershouse.org/the-great-war-
centennial-2014-2018theworldwar.org
Examples of projects
• europeana1914-1918.eu/en/contributor
• 1914 - Centennial - 1918: The World Remembers
• Fields of Battle - Terre de Paix
International

4. 2014
IWM North
Special exhibition
IWM London
FWW galleries
Art exhibition

5. Film screenings &
public programmes
• locally
• nationally
• internationally
2016
Still from the Battle of the Somme film

6. 2018: impact, legacy

7. Business as usual
• Exhibitions
• Learning programmes
• Public events
• Conferences
IWM Centenary Programme
• Family of digital products
o Lives of the FWW
o Diaries of the FWW
o Photographs of the FWW
o Art of the FWW
• Digital learning resources
• Film screenings
2014 - 2018

8. Diaries of the First World War
dates and times
places
people
other units
battles
casualty numbers
gallantry awards
weather
events (people joining, command
changes, postings, etc.)
equipment lists

9. Photos of the First World War

11. www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org
For more information:

12. • Partnership extranet
• Networks & expertise
• Free resources
• Centenary brand mark
• Cross-promotion
• Evaluation - impact
www.1914.org/partners
FWW Centenary Partnership

13. Timelines: 1871 - 1929

14. 50 photographs
3 film clips
5 sound bites
Alfred Leete, Kitchener: Original Artwork for the ‘London Opinion’
10 collections of personal papers
15 works of art
17 objects
Collection Items: 100 assets
Rudder from German Albatros DIII

15. Illustrated letters from William Britton to his young son Billie, October 1917
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, 28 June 1914
Women workers at the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell
Paul Nash, Wire, 1918
Henry Rushbury,
The War Refugees’ Camp, Earl’s Court, 1918

16. Useful Guides
Communications
Collections & Research
Art
Learning

17. www.1914.org
Cross-promotion

18. Arts Council England
• Grants For the Arts
• Strategic Touring Programme
• Please go to www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding for more information
Heritage Lottery Fund
• ‘Then and Now’ – New grant programme to fund First World War projects
• £6 million to distribute over the next 6 years
• Grants available will be from £3,000 - £10,000
• Funding will be available throughout the UK and open to any group
• A decision will be made on any application within 8 weeks
• Further information: www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes
Funding Opportunities

19. • Post funded by Arts Council England until March 2015
• Based at IWM London
• Role involves:
• Encouraging museums in England to engage with the First World War
Centenary
• Look strategically at where museums can work together to create better quality
projects with a lasting legacy and to avoid duplication of work
• Be a point of contact for anyone enquiring about the Centenary
• Monitor and contribute content to the Partnership Programme extranet
Centenary Programme Museum Liaison
Officer for English Regions

20. Museum of English Rural Life
• Working on ‘Reading at War’ exhibition with Reading Museum
• Also participating in the University of Reading’s commemoration event
RAF Halton Trenchard Museum
• Planning an exhibition from mid-2014 for a year
• It will portray infantry and RFC/RAF mechanic training on the Halton Estate
during WW1
Tom Browns School Museum
• Exhibition for 2014: ‘Remembering 1914’
• Will feature soldiers (and their families) who were killed in the First World War.
• They have put out a request for any local information that may help them
Case Studies – Projects already planned in
Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire

21. Contemporary Relevance - Shared Experience - Lasting Legacy
• Debating
• Engaging
• Exploring
• Listening
• Observing
• Participating
• Reflecting
• Researching
FWW Centenary Programme
Walter Bayes
The Underworld: Taking cover in a Tube Station
during a London Air Raid, 1918

22. Thank you
Josie Gale
Centenary Programme Museum Liaison Officer for English Regions
jgale@iwm.org.uk