WWI and the foundation of NUS
This blog was originally produced for the National Union of Students (NUS) website. The NUS are a community partner of this project. The original post can be found here. WWI and the foundation of NU...
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Big Ideas Company – Remember Together 2017 – APPLICATIONS ...
In 2017, Big Ideas Company is being publicly funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to lead two large-scale commemoration programmes about the First World War – Th...
Exhibition: Refusing to Kill. Bristol’s World War One Conscientious Ob...
9th September 2017-8th January 2018 A new exhibition featuring rarely seen letters, documents and photographs opens on 9th September telling the story of Bristol’s Conscientious Objectors and t...
Life in the POW Camp in South Lincolnshire
Contributed by Dr. Andrew Kerr and Professor Jane Chapman Sutton Bridge, in south Lincolnshire was the site of a now forgotten First World War prisoner of war labour camp under the administration of ...
Lowewood Museum project ‘Stephen Warner – One Man’s Journey Through Wa...
Lowewood Museum has received £68,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, ‘Stephen Warner – One Man’s Journey Through War’. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery ...
Passchendaele, 1917 – as seen and experienced through women’s poetry...
In these days when we reflect on the hard battles fought and the many lives lost in Passchendaele, we have the privilege of sharing Dr Viv Newman’s fascinating talk given at the Belgian Ambass...
WINDOWS by John Galsworthy
The first professional UK production in 85 years “It’s ‘ardly worth while to do these winders. You clean’em, and they’re dirty again in no time. It’s like life. And people talk o’ progress. What a so...
John Galsworthy revisited
Contributed by Andrew Maunder As the Finborough Theatre revives John Galsworthy’s comedy Windows as part of its Great War 100 series, it’s worth thinking more about the play’s Nobel Prize-winning aut...
Norland Nurses
The quintessence of post-WWI Britain’s efforts to rebuild and provide for its future generations by Lynne Cole Emily Ward founded The Norland Institute in 1892, the first ever establishment for the t...
