If you’re commemorating Remembrance Day 2023 with your class, you might like to have a look at our range of Remembrance Day resources. Armistice Day is an interactive experience featuring interviews with men and women who talk about what it was like during World War One, and exploring various aspects of life on the Home Front and in the trenches. In ‘Tell me about yesterday tomorrow’, however, both elements come together on equal terms, complementing each other in unexpected and productive ways. On 18 March 1915, a powerful naval force of British and French ships failed spectacularly in an attempt to force its way through the Dardanelles and threaten the Turkish capital, Constantinople (Istanbul).

thank you for such a beautiful article that allows me to be a part of Cas’ creations as I feel like I just walked thru her brain, studio and gallery showing all in one… brilliant pictures and text, so well done! Jacqueline Hurley is widely regarded as the country’s foremost remembrance artist having had the honour of exhibiting her artwork at the National Memorial Arboretum, on three occasions at The Royal Albert Hall for the Festival of Remembrance, and at the St Clement Danes RAF Memorial Church, London.

London Cenotaph Augmented Reality (AR) 3D Quick Look Model - This incredible 3D model lets you and your learners take a closer look at the London Cenotaph, an important monument that commemorates British and Commonwealth lives lost in conflicts. The entire project ran out of time and money and the Imperial War Museum became the custodian of this collection. As she travels, she collects, often cast-off textiles, or gifts of the old and the worn, mostly gifted from friends. The IWM collection features almost 20,000 works of art, documenting conflict since 1914 and representing a wide range of mediums, from photography to sculpture. The simple presentation of the pieces on battens and hooks was equally was dictated by time and space knowing I had less than a day to install the works and to make small adjustments as the proposed gallery space dictated.

In these works, Jung focuses on the way visitors approach the memorial, showing them mainly as outlined silhouettes using their mobile phones to take photographs that will soon be forgotten in the cloud. RBL doesn't prescribe what these should bebut services should be inclusive of all members of the community.Air raids tore up the very fabric of the city night after night, and by day its streets were filled with soldiers, both British and from overseas. As I build and overlay the torn and cut pieces I constantly refer to drawings and studies in my sketchbook and make adjustments. In the last ten years or so my focus has been the everyday relationship we have with the world and the connections between the urban and natural world. During the First World War, the Women’s Work Sub-Committee commissioned ten female artists to document women's roles during the conflict. You can wear your red Remembrance Day poppy to honour and celebrate Remembrance Day, or you can give it to someone as a gift.

Heroes' Remembrance Cinquains Poem and Resource Pack - This poetic resource can be used as an excellent writing prompt for your class. The brothers shared a studio at Chalfont St Giles, where John Nash created his painting, Oppy Wood, 1917. Challenge your young learners to use a variety of tools and matierials to count using these numbered Remembrance Day poppies. As the Battle of Britain raged in the skies over Britain in the summer of 1940, a range of British artists were quick to record and interpret this vital event.Representatives of the Armed Forces, Fishing Fleets and Merchant Air and Navy will be there, as well as faith communities and High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries.