Programme
- Friday, 14 November - Conference Day
- Saturday, 15 November - Europeana Collection Day
- Tuesday, 18 November: Joyeux Noël (Film)
- Exhibitions First World War Posters & 'Lettres d'un soldat' (untill 12 January 2015)
Lectures
Morning Programme
The First World War has bequeathed mankind a documentary evidence of military events, battlefield horrors and other reflections on war and peace. Correspondence between man and wife, containing all elements of an intimate relationship; posters, advocating participation in the war or an appeal to achieve peace; pacifists, exchanging views on the ending of the war and the triumph of a peaceful world. The Peace Palace Library, holding such collections, in collaboration with the ‘Alliance Française’, organizes lectures addressing these recollections of the First World War and present two exhibitions in the main entrance hall of the Peace Palace: The First World War in Posters & 'Lettres d’un soldat' – letters of a French soldier to his wife (1914-1915).
- Prof. Peter Van den Dungen, The Peace Movement Collection of the Peace Palace Library and the First World War
- Martijn Le Coultre, Posters of the First World War. Weapons of Mass Communication
- Richard Schreurs, Introduction to the Exhibition ‘Lettres d’un soldat’ - letters of a French soldier to his wife (1914-1915)
Lectures start at 10:30. Doors open at 10:10. Registration
Librarian's choice
A selection of relevant publications from the Peace Palace Library collection
Reference works
- Becker, J.-J., La Première Guerre mondiale, Paris, Belin, 2003.
- Cochet, F. et R. Porte (dir.), Dictionnaire de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2008.
- Garner, J.W., International Law and the World War, 2 vols., London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1920.
- Hankel, G., Die Leipziger Prozesse: Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen und ihre strafrechtliche Verfolgung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Hamburg, Hamburger Edition, 2003.
- Hirschfeld, G., G. Krumeich and I. Renz (eds.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War, Leiden, Brill, 2012.
- Hirschfeld, G. und G. Krumeich (Hrsg.), Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Paderborn, Schöningh, 2009.
- Horne, J.N. and A.R. Kramer, German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001.
- Hull, I.V., A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War, Ithaca; London, Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Janz, O., 14 – Der grosse Krieg, Frankfurt; New York, Campus Verlag, 2013.
- Joll, J.B., The Origins of the First World War, Harlow, Longman, 1984.
- Keegan, J., The First World War, London, Pimlico, 1999.
- MacMillan, M.O., The War that ended Peace: How Europe abandoned Peace for the First World War, London, Profile Books, 2013.
- Mulligan, W., The Origins of the First World War, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Münkler, H., Der Große Krieg: die Welt 1914 bis 1918, Berlin, Rowohlt, 2013.
- Phillipson, C., International Law and the Great War, London, Fisher Unwin; Sweet and Maxwell, 1915.
- Pöhlmann, M., J.S. Corum and G. Hirschfeld (eds.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War, Leiden, Brill, 2012.
- Stevenson, D., 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, London, Penguin, 2005.
- Storey, W.K., The First World War: A Concise Global History, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
- Winter, J. (ed.), The Cambridge History of the First World War, 3 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Recent books
- Boghardt, T., The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I, Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2012.
- Fenske, H., Der Anfang vom Ende des alten Europa: die alliierte Verweigerung von Friedensgesprächen 1914-1919, München, Olzog, 2013.
- Graebner, N.A., The Versailles Treaty and its Legacy: the Failure of the Wilsonian Vision, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Hawes, J., Englanders and Huns: How Five Decades of Enmity Led to the First World War, London, Simon and Schuster, 2014.
- Kraus, H.-C., Versailles und die Folgen: Außenpolitik zwischen Revisionismus und Verständigung, 1919-1933, Berlin, be.bra Verlag, 2013.
- Panayi, P., Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees during the First World War, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012.
- MacMillan, M.O., The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, New York, NY, Random House, 2013.
- McMeekin, S., July 1914: Countdown to War, New York, NY, Basic Books, 2013.
- Nielson, J.M., American Historians in War and Peace: Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, Bethesda, MD, Academia Press, 2012.
- Pignot, M., Allons enfants de la patrie: génération Grande Guerre, Paris, Seuil, 2012.
- Samson, A., World War I in Africa: the Forgotten Conflict among the European Powers, London, Tauris, 2013.
- Reisser, W.J., The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2012.
- Wawro, G., A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, New York, Basic Books, 2014.
- Wolf, S., Guarded Neutrality: Diplomacy and Internment in the Netherlands during the First World War, Leiden, Brill, 2013.
- Yanikdaǧ, Y., Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Relevant PPL-keywords for further research
External links
- 2014-2018 Centenary Websites
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in Belgium
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in France
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in the United Kingdom
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in Australia
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in New Zealand
- 2014-2018 Centenary Events in the United States
- WW1 Remembrance Projects