11 November 2008 is the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War. Join with the National Library in marking this occasion, and commemorating the ‘Coming Home’ of our soldiers from the Great War.
Memory Maker
Craft your own expression of what ‘Coming Home’ means using this video-mixer, stocked with photos, graphics, film clips and music from the years following the First World War.
Welcome Sweet Peace:
Returning home after the Great War
This exhibition will reveal how the end of the Great War was marked, and show how New Zealand was transformed during and after the conflict.
National Library Gallery
2 Dec 2008 – 14 Mar 2009
Free entry
Returning home after the Great War
This exhibition will reveal how the end of the Great War was marked, and show how New Zealand was transformed during and after the conflict.
National Library Gallery
2 Dec 2008 – 14 Mar 2009
Free entry
We’re sharing First World War photographs from the Turnbull Library on Flickr.
Events at the National Library
18 Dec 08: Tour of ‘Welcome Sweet Peace’ 12 Feb 09: Nicholas Boyack & Jane Tolerton talk 26 Feb 09: Talk by David Colquhoun 12 Mar 09: Tour of ‘Welcome Sweet Peace’Events around New Zealand
Coming Home events are being held around the country from November 2008 to March 2009. Many of these are listed on the NZLive website.
Image (left) ‘Goodbye England’. Photographer: Frederic Kingsford. 6 August 1919. Alexander Turnbull Library. Ref: PA1-o-934-062-3.
Image (right) Colonel Griffiths and others at Codford Command Depot, c. 1918. Photographer: Thomas Frederick Scales. Alexander Turnbull Library. Ref: (1/2-013818-G)
Image (right) Colonel Griffiths and others at Codford Command Depot, c. 1918. Photographer: Thomas Frederick Scales. Alexander Turnbull Library. Ref: (1/2-013818-G)
Organisations participating in 'Coming Home' include the National War Memorial, Archives New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Army Museum Waiouru, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand Film Archive, the Royal New Zealand Returned Services' Association, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Royal New Zealand Defence Force, Armistice in Cambridge and local councils.
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