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• Weatherwatch: The birth of the motor lifeboat

  20 Oct 2014: Paul Brown on the attempts to rescue passengers from the hospital ship Rohilla, wrecked off Whitby in 1914

• Only remaining ship from first world war Gallipoli landing opened to public

  20 Oct 2014: HMS M.33 will be put on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth in time for next year’s centenary commemorations

• The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands review – artistically gung-ho

  

  16 Oct 2014: With its spectacular set pieces, this story of two first-world-war naval battles merits comparisons with Eisenstein, writes Peter Bradshaw

• Queen visits Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation - in pictures

  16 Oct 2014: A royal trip to Tower of London display of poppies marked the day that Britain became involved in first world war

• A Farewell to Arms review – Hemingway novel becomes multimedia theatre show

  

  16 Oct 2014: The author’s tough-guy take on the first world war is transferred to the stage with outstanding technical and dramatic flair, writes Alfred Hickling

• First world war in Google Street View

  16 Oct 2014: From British prisoners of war being marched through Bruges to anti-aircraft guns on the Eiffel Tower and new recruits in Toronto, our Street View specialist takes us back 100 years

• French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in first world war

  14 Oct 2014: Parents kept room as it was the day he left, and stipulated when they moved that it should not be changed for 500 years

• Irish government to lay wreath at Cenotaph for first time

  14 Oct 2014: UK government invites ambassador to honour thousands of Irish who fought and died in Britain’s armed forces in two world wars

• Battle fatigue: war on the stage

  9 Oct 2014:

  There's been plenty of war on stage in this first world war centenary year. But do the difficulties of staging conflict leave theatregoers battle-scarred, asks Lyn Gardner

• The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands: the best British war film you’ve never seen

  9 Oct 2014: Its director was a world war one hero, the Royal Navy lent ships to re-create its stirring scenes – and even the Germans liked it. Pamela Hutchinson reports on the rerelease of a 1927 silent epic of naval warfare

• Private Peaceful review – fails to deliver emotional punch of Morpurgo story

  

  8 Oct 2014: The poignancy in this tale of brothers at war is deserted by the clutter of the National Youth Theatre’s clumsy production, writes Lyn Gardner

• English football to commemorate 1914 Christmas Truce match centenary

  2 Oct 2014: English football will commemorate the centenary of the 1914 Christmas Truce football match with a week of remembrance activity this December

• Michael Morpurgo: how the sinking of the Lusitania inspired my new book

  24 Sep 2014: Michael Morpurgo shares the story of the sinking of The Lusitania in 1915 and photographs he has taken in the Isles of Scilly, the setting of his latest book. Listen to the Moon tells the story of a young girl found floating in the ocean on a grand piano, after the ship she was on was torpedoed by a German U boat in 1915

• Africa and the first world war – share your letters, photographs and stories

  12 Sep 2014: Over two million people from the continent took part in the conflict at home and abroad. Share your artefacts with GuardianWitness and help us build a better picture of their lives

• Dark night of the Proms: how the festival’s saviour fell victim to wartime prejudice

  10 Sep 2014: Martin Kettle: A century ago Sir Edgar Speyer, the great Proms benefactor, was forced out of England by a campaign of vindictive jingoism

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