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Love across borders: Serbian teachers on the France Riviera
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918 project. This new, short blog series, Love...
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Love across borders: the tailor and the soldier
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918 project. This short blog series, Love across...
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Tamo daleko (There, far away) – a Serbian prisoner of war during World War One
Guest blog written by Fabian & Tatjana Vendrig (Dutch and Serbian language versions below) “The bread you sent, every Serb took it, they crossed themselves and kissed it and then we all started to...
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The Belgian Exodus of World War One
Today, the global refugee crisis is a hot topic, all over the news and debated about in society. What is to be changed about the current situation? Who is supposed to do what and when? It may be...
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The nature of Turkestan – legacy of Ernst Kleiber
It was in January 2014 during our second series of Europeana 1914-1918 collection days in Berlin that a very special and unique contribution to our project was made: the richly-illustrated manuscript...
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Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards
Millions of postcards circulated during the First World War and influenced public opinion. It is not surprising that something as ordinary as a postcard was used by governments on all sides to either...
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Discovering Europeana’s first world war objects in a game: 11-11 Memories retold
When thinking of a first world war game, some images immediately come to mind: huge battlefields where players shoot each other over and over again, constantly dying and respawning, gamers shouting at...
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The Treaty of Versailles: the end of World War I?
On this day 100 years ago, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. The treaty officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It also imposed heavy reparations on Germany,...
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Reporting from the trenches: newspapers in World War I
During World War One, newspapers were the main source of information. With no radio or television or internet, there were other ways to get the latest news like word to mouth, the weekly newsreels in...
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Progress in war making: the industrialisation of World War I
Industrialisation played a major role in World War One. New military machinery could be produced at a much larger scale and at a much faster rate than before. Along with innovative technology, this...
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