The Gallipoli Blog
The 'All About Gallipoli' Blog section.
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As the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project draws to a close we are delighted to present a film which captures so many of its successes. The 12-minute film records the conference which we held in March 2016 but goes much further than that, highlighting the real impact of the project across the U.K. and further afield to Ireland, Turkey and Aust...
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16 year old Kobi Watson travelled from Melbourne, Australia to speak at our conference in Birmingham. Here he tells us more: Students and teachers set up their displays and presented their findings. I was thoroughly impressed by all their efforts; many of which looked at war diaries, archival documents or specific moments in time. Students’ work...
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2000 miles separates them, but in some ways Devon is similar to Gallipoli, with its beaches and countryside. In other ways the two places are worlds apart, with their different history, culture, politics and religion. What did the students and teachers on our most recent trip to Gallipoli think? The North Devon coast. (Wikipedia Photo: NHenb...
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Fraser, 15, found this piece of barbed wire on the exact spot where so many of the soldiers from Edinburgh had been killed. Photo: R. Clutterbuck Students from two Edinburgh secondary schools have recently returned from Turkey after a battlefield trip to the Gallipoli peninsula. This was the second visit to the Gallipoli peninsula that the p...
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The Gallipoli Centenary Education Project – jointly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Gallipoli Association – has been setting up activities in advance of the 2015 commemorations of the disastrous campaign in which thousands of British soldiers lost their lives. Eight pupils from a Hampshire school have just returned from Gallipoli, ha...
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Students, teachers, museum staff, historians, freelance artists, actors and a film crew came from all over Britain to join our schools’ conference in Birmingham. We were also delighted to welcome Irish groups from Dublin and Kerry and our guest speaker from Australia, Kobi Watson. The event took place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute....
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Islington children hold their Gallipoli wreath before the march past. Photo: Ana Baião Amongst the marchers at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Sunday was a group from the Gallipoli Association and we were delighted to be able to include four children from Tufnell Park Primary School in the group. The four children – Amy, Charlie, Natali...