The Partnership directly supported members to enhance, share and diversify their activity, with exclusive use of over 300 IWM Archive photographs, sound and film clips, online platforms, and access to networking events and one-to-one support from IWM teams.

Members participated in programmes which brought audiences together across the world to mark the centenary, creating truly international commemorations. In 2016, we collectively remembered the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with screenings of the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme at over 360 venues world-wide, while in 2018 Women’s Work 100 brought stories of the working lives of women in the First World War to new, global audiences.

The First World War Centenary Partnership enabled members to utilise resources that would otherwise have been inaccessible, to reach diverse global audiences, and to participate in moments of international commemoration. IWM drove a collaborative approach to commemorations across the cultural sector which developed a deeper public understanding of the First World War, ensuring a lasting legacy for the centenary.