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Comment les Parisiens ont-ils vécu la guerre de 1914 - 1918?

Le reportage inédit d'un millier d'images réalisé par le photographe Charles Lansiaux (1855 - 1939) donne un témoignage exceptionnel de la vie de tous les jours pendant toute la durée de la guerre.

During our French trip in April 2014 I discovered this wonderful photo exhibition in Le Marais, organised by la Marie de Paris - completely par hasard! Charles Lansiaux is a photographer whose pictures were purchased by la Bibliothèque...

An English Translation Follows the French Version of this Article.

Comment pouvons-nous nous rappeller des victimes de la Premiere Guerre mondiale? Une reflexion ANZAC DAY.

Chaque année, le 25 Avril ont une fête nationale, appelée ANZAC DAY, en souvenir de ceux qui sont morts à la guerre. Cette année, le 25 Avril était le 99 ans que les soldats Néo-Zélandais sont atterris sous le feu sur la plage de Gallipoli dans l’Empire Ottoman (Turque).

Histoire militaire dominé les journaux des articles...

The last couple of weeks I have been busy working towards completing a history research internal assessment - a very long but worthwhile process.  I was luckily able to work this internal in parallel with my Young Ambassador inquiry, meaning that over the month since my last blog entry, I have been able to kill two birds with one stone.  The outline of the history internal is to “research one historical event or place that is of significance to New Zealanders.”  I stated the aim of my research...

We are starting to work on our book project and classes in English, French, German, Art and History will be busy over the next two terms getting work on our focus completed. We are going on a month long tour to France starting Wednesday April 9th and we will be visiting the NZ war graves and Somme battlefields to visit the graves of former PNBHS Old Boys who died in the Great War serving NZ. This will also form the basis of some of our project work with our partner school in Hirson.