Success at Collection Day in Luxembourg

Yes­ter­day we kicked-off our pan Euro­pean World War 1 fam­ily his­tory road­show at the National Library of Lux­em­bourg. We invited mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic to share their sto­ries, pho­tographs, post­cards, let­ters or other items from the time of the First World War. Dur­ing the road­show, his­to­ri­ans and experts were avail­able to talk about the sig­nif­i­cance of the finds — while our staff digi­tised and uploaded them to the website.

Over 70 peo­ple attended the road­show in Lux­em­bourg and many con­tri­bu­tions were digi­tised by our team for inclu­sion in the Euro­peana 1914–1918 archive. We would like to thank all of the peo­ple that took the time to share their items and sto­ries from the First World War. We have included some images from the event below, along with dates and loca­tions for our upcom­ing roadshows.

We are build­ing the first ever online Euro­pean archive of pri­vate mem­o­ra­bilia from WW1 in time for the 100th anniver­sary of the out­break of war – and we need your help to do this. So please bring your mem­o­ra­bilia along to an event, or alter­na­tively if you are unable to attend a road­show you can con­tribute to the archive online at Europeana1914-1918.eu.