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• 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

• The animals that served in the first world war – in pictures

  3 Sep 2014: During the first world war millions of animals were used for transport, to carry vital communications and as companions to the troops. This week, the PDSA posthumously awarded an honorary Dickin Medal – the ‘animal VC’ – to the horse Warrior, on behalf of all the animals that served.

• The big Australian science picnic of 1914

  3 Sep 2014: Rebekah Higgitt: 100 years ago, British scientists travelled to Australia for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The event was meant to promote science, progress and empire but was overshadowed by the announcement of war

• Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army, to feature on £5 coin

  3 Sep 2014: Tull, also one of Britain’s first black footballers, was killed in France in March 1918 after heroic war service

• First world war horse awarded 'Victoria Cross for animals'

  2 Sep 2014: Warrior is posthumously awarded honorary PDSA Dickin medal in recognition of bravery of animals that served during conflict
  

• Heroic first world war horse receives 'animal Victoria Cross'

  2 Sep 2014: Warrior, dubbed 'the horse Germans could not kill', awarded first ever honorary PDSA Dickin medal in recognition of his bravery

• Tower of London's WW1 remembrance installation: share your photos and videos

  1 Sep 2014: To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, The Tower of London has created an installation of porcelain poppies encircling it. If you’re taking part we would like to see your photos and videos

• How we made The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen app for iPad

  Guardian Professional, 29 Aug 2014: The one-man team behind the first world war app on bringing Owen’s words to life and the decision to use female narrators

• US defence secretary recommends Medal of Honor for black WWI hero

  26 Aug 2014: Sgt Henry Johnson was serving in the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment when he killed or wounded several enemy soldiers

• Kronos Quartet perform first world war multimedia project Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 for Edinburgh international festival

  Video (7min 05sec), 26 Aug 2014:

  In this exclusive video for the Guardian the Kronos Quartet's leader David Harrington introduces their latest work which blends an emotive score by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov with archive footage from the first world war reclaimed by film-maker Bill Morrison.

• In Flanders Fields review – a powerful commemoration of the first world war

  

  26 Aug 2014: It will be hard for other centenary events to match this original blend of readings and music, writes Robin Denselow

• Foreign fighters tell us a different story from the trenches

  23 Aug 2014: David Olusoga: we should recognise the role of non-European troops in the First World War

• First world war centenary commemorations – in pictures

  23 Aug 2014: Historical society members, city officials and the public gather for the commemorations in Mons. Today is the 100th anniversary of the first time British forces clashed with the German 1st army

• Healing the first world war: Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley – in pictures

  21 Aug 2014: Netley’s military hospital was built after the Crimean war to service the army of the British empire. It stood for a century and saw two world wars before being demolished in 1966. Now, rare photographs have been uncovered from a private album dating from the first world war, which reveal the extraordinary daily life of a forgotten war relic
  

• Palace of pain: Netley, the hospital built for an empire of soldiers

  21 Aug 2014:

  The vast Royal Victoria Hospital was as big as a town, with its own gasworks, bakery, reservoir and even prison. But it was still too small to copy with the industrial-scale carnage of the first world war. Philip Hoare – who grew up nearby – tells its story

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