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The In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, a cultural and transnational museum about WWI (Piet Chielens)
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The Ypres Salient, the infamous bulge in the front line around the Belgian city of Ypres was one of the major battlefields on the Western Front. Over 220,000 British and Commonwealth lives were lost there between 1914 and 1918. Cemeteries, monuments and the Menin Gate, the very first Missing Memorial ever built, are the main reasons why British people have visited and still continue to visit Ypres and the former West Flemish front zone.\u00a0 At the Menin Gate a daily Last Post is sounded in honour of the fallen. In this landscape of traditional and mostly national commemoration, the In Flanders Fields Museum stands out as a place of a more inclusive, transnational and also cultural commemoration. Piet Chielens, co-founder of the museum that opened its doors in 1998, depicts the need of such an agonistic perspective to secure the commemoration and the historic relevance of WWI for future generations.<\/p>\n

Politics, Piers Morgan and the colour of Poppies (Symon Hill)
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In the autumn of 2018 Symon Hill co-ordinator of the Peace Pledge Union appeared on Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan<\/a> discussing remembrance. Symon will talk about this experience, remembrance, commemoration and peace.<\/p>\n

‘Remembrance on the Rocks’:\u00a0 Scenes from Canada’s Great War Centenary (Lee-Anne Broadhead & Simon Howard)<\/h2>\n

Was Canada\u2019s Great War a glorious struggle leading to \u2018the birth of a nation,\u2019 or a calamitous, divisive plunge into \u2018the vortex of European militarism\u2019? For the former Conservative Government of Stephen Harper, the Centenary was a golden chance to celebrate an indomitable \u2018warrior nation,\u2019 forged by \u2018Johnny Canuck\u2019 in the fires of France and Flanders \u2013 a myth it hoped to see embodied in a towering \u2018Mother Canada\u2019 statue on the rocks of Green Cove in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Closely involved in the successful struggle to stop the statue, Cape Breton University\u2019s Lee-Anne Broadhead and Sean Howard present \u2018Mother Canada\u2019 as an example of \u2018repressive remembrance,\u2019 contrasting it with a landmark exhibition in Ottawa juxtaposing the work of two Great War painters \u2013 one Canadian, one German \u2013 illustrating the power of art to generate a \u2018critical remembrance\u2019 of conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, a cultural and transnational museum about WWI (Piet Chielens) The Ypres Salient, the infamous bulge in the front line around the Belgian city of Ypres was one of the major battlefields on the Western Front. Over 220,000 British and Commonwealth lives were lost there between 1914 and 1918. 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