Portadown’s Rebecca Pinkerton has been honoured at a Hillsborough Castle ceremony where she was appointed to the role of Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet for County Armagh…

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort. In this final podcast, we hear from NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE…

Named after a line from a Philip Larkin poem, Never Such Innocence is the official First World War centenary charity for young people, committed to educating the next generation about the Great War and its continuing impact on our lives today.

A poem written by a St Joseph’s College student Lia Taylor pleading with people to learn lessons from the Great War has won her a special trip to Germany.

She will also attend a reception hosted by Sir Sebastian Wood KCMG, British Ambassador to Germany, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, President of Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) and the Never Such Innocence organisation.

Ahead of November's official centenary commemorations to mark the end of the First World War, a special service was held on Sunday 30th September to honor more than 40 Irishmen who received the Victoria Cross for acts of valor between 1914 and 1918.

A special service commemorating Irishmen awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War took place in Belfast this weekend.

Two schoolchildren won the chance to recite poems at this event that they had written as part of the Never Such Innocence competition – a project which engages young people in the First World War centenary.

A POEM by a year 8 pupil won her the chance to take part in an RAF 100 flypast over Buckingham Palace.

Freiya Elton, a pupil at Malvern St James Girls’ School, won a prestigious competition to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

Caring schoolchildren, top naval officers and the Prime Minister joined forces on Friday to hear childrens' tributes to the young men who gave their lives a century ago in the last year of the First World War.

TWO colourful quilts designed by Monmouthshire children are going on display at Usk Community Hub to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

St Cedd’s School Year 6 pupil, Thomas Callander, received an outstanding prize for his poem in the Never Such Innocence Competition, which received over 6,700 entries.

A Centenary to Remember

As 2018 speeds away, at Never Such Innocence (NSI) we have been working to make this year our most momentous and memorable and so far, with tremendous success.

STUDENTS from Forres Academy reected on World War I at a roadshow hosted by RAF Lossiemouth.

Koukouschool, Trikala, ‘on the wall’ of the Museum for Macedonian Struggle!

Listen to our interview about the Awards Ceremony with ERT here - it begins at 35 minutes and 30 seconds!

Clare Balding's Sunday Best talks to Lady Lucy French about "Never Such Innocence" project for children.

Music students from Moray will travel to London to perform a moving song they have written to pay homage to the RAF.

Pupils from Lossiemouth High School have been chosen as the winners of the international competition Never Such Innocence, which has been organised to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I...

A YOUNG city wordsmith has gained national appraise for her poem in the voice of a First World War soldier…

Pupils from a Sunderland school are bound for the capital after winning a singing competition which marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Youngsters at Hasting Hill Academy have been chosen as the winners of the international ‘Never Such Innocence: Songs of the Centenary’ contest…