Exhibitions available to loan: Ten exhibitions available to download free of charge
Do you want to organise an exhibition on the subject of the First World War within your institution? The Historial of the Great War has ten thematic exhibitions available to loan free of charge.
The loan procedure is a two-step process:
- • You sign the partnership agreement
- • We send you a Wetransfer link for the exhibition information panels, which you can download and print at your own convenience.
The Historial currently has 10 exhibitions available to loan:
- • Women in French society, 1914-1918
11 panels, exhibition originally in French - Families 14-18 10
panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL - • Greetings from the Western Front
7 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL - • The economic dimension: Total War, economic resources during the Great War
9 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL - • Hidden histories
7 panels, exhibition available in 3 languages, 1 series of panels for each: FR/EN/NL - Music
10 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL - • “Listening to the war: sounds, music and silence 14-18”
12 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN - • “So far from home: six Australians on the Western Front”
22 panels, exhibition exhibition available in FR/EN - • American posters of the Great War
13 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN - • Propaganda and photos 14-18
15 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN
Women in French society, 1914-1918
11 panels, exhibition originally in French
- Introduction
- • Agriculture: women in clogs
- • Workers and seamstresses: urban women at work
- • Nurses: helping out!
- • Schoolmistresses: the Republican ideal
- • Housewives: make do and mend
- • War godmothers: fantasies and prostitution
- • Mothers and wives: waiting…
- • Women in black: grief and homecomings
- • Young girls: just like mother
- • The wait is over: peace restored
Families 14-18
10 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL
- • Father: uniforms and armies, trench warfare, trench handicraft
- • Mother: life on the home front, saving and working
- • Couples: correspondence between the front line and the home front
- • Children: games and toys, the school and the factory
- • Families: propaganda and hatred of the enemy
Greetings from the Western Front
7 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL
- • The British Empire on French soil
- • Great Britain and the Great War
- • British battle and soldiers on the Western Front (Antwerp, Somme, Cambrai, Pas de Calais), day-to-day life as a Tommy
- • Franco-British relations: generally smooth, sometimes bumpy
- • Memories of the British presence
The economic dimension: Total War, economic resources during the Great War
9 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL
- • The front line: cutting through rich regions
- • Requisitions in industry
- • Requisitions in agriculture
- • Requisitions of manpower
- • Mobilising resources on the Allied side
- • Destruction
- • Strategic destruction
Hidden histories
7 panels, exhibition available in 3 languages, 1 series of panels for each: FR/EN/NL
- • British army games
- • Belgian refugees
- • The hidden hospital
- • Pigeons
- • The death wire
- • Lille under the occupation
Music
10 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN/NL
- • The war in scores
- • Composers and the Great War
- • Music in prison camps
- • The Front
- • Propaganda
- • Music and the Great War
“Listening to the war: sounds, music and silence 14-18”
12 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN
- • Instruments played by soldiers
- • The sounds of war
- • Military music
- • Songs at the front and on the home front
- • Concerts at the front
- • Concerts on the home front
- • Music in the camps and occupied territories
- • Composers and funerary music
- • The lost ear
- • Silence
- • Memory
“So far from home: six Australians on the Western Front”
22 panels, exhibition exhibition available in FR/EN
- • Introduction
- • Frederick Kelly, a talented composer and pianist
- • Tom Cleary, a 39-year-old electrician
- • Elisabeth Pearl Corkhill, a 28-year-old nurse
- • Rich Baker, an 18-year-old bank clerk
- • Frank Grose and Yvon Calmus
- • Douglas Grant, a 31-year-old Indigenous Australian
American posters of the Great War
13 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN
Propaganda and photos 14-18
15 panels, exhibition available in FR/EN
For further information and reservations, please write to us at info@historial.org or call us on 03.22.83.14.18
The download link will be sent at the same time as the loan agreement.
Examples of information panels (click to expand):
