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Call for Papers: What Tommy Did Next – Veterans’ Organisations and Act...
Keynote: Professor Jay Winter, Yale University A 1-day Symposium to be held in the Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict at the University of Edinburgh on Saturday 18th March 2017

Seeing it Through
Hertford Theatre Studio, Hertford SG14 1PS – Thursday 20th October, 7.30pm. Tickets £15/£13. Contact the box office on 01992 531500 or book online. St Andrew’s Church, Hertford SG14 1HZ &...


A Well-Remembered Voice by J.M. Barrie
Can the dead speak to us? Jack died in the trenches. His mother believes a séance will allow her to communicate with him. His father is sceptical. But it’s to him that a well-remembered voice speaks ...

Lecture Series dates for HLF funded project Herts at War
The next lecture in the Heritage Lottery Fund project Herts at War entitled Salonika: the forgotten front will be given by Alan Wakefield from the Imperial War Museum on 19th October. To book tickets...

‘Seeing It Through’ First World War Community project History days...
Saturday 8th October: 10am – 1pm Place House Hall, Ware SG12 9HL Saturday 15th October: 10am – 1pm Thundridge Village Hall SG12 0SU Saturday 22nd October: 10am – 1pm Braughing (venue to be confi...

Responses to World War 1 Conscription – Clements Hall Local History Gr...
In December Clements Hall Local History Group will be hosting a training workshop focusing on an important WW1 resource, the records of the North Yorkshire Military Appeals Tribunal papers, newly ava...

Britain and the Easter Rising: a one-day symposium on the impact of th...
For the event page, click here. Britain and the Easter Rising: a one-day symposium on the impact of the Easter Rising on Britain, University of Central Lancashire, Preston

Back to the Front Project – Handmaidens of Death
As part of the Abbot’s Langley’s ‘Back to the Front’ project the Flatpack Theatre Company will be performing Herbert Tremaine’s Handmaidens of Death, a First World War play which deals with the exper...