Taking Europeana 1914-1918 personally

Taking Europeana 1914-1918 personally

As you may know, one of Europeana’s projects is collecting personal stories and memories from World War One.  Europeana 1914-1918 is a crowd-sourced project. That means that it is you, its users, the members of the public, who make it …


Death to Militarism!

Death to Militarism! / Død over militarismen

Women’s Peace Party (the later “Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom”, WILPF), was founded in 1915 as a reaction to the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. This association was founded at the Women’s Peace Conference in …




A Focus on World War One

You don’t have to be particularly eagle-eyed to notice all the references to World War One on the Europeana site, as well as on our blogs, Facebook and Twitter feeds. But you might be wondering why we’ve got a particular …


Map of Europe in 1914

The memory of the First World War, its events and consequences, its victims and victors, remains very much alive today. It has become part of the individual and collective memory of Europe and of countries across the world – the …