Work is under way to immortalise the experiences of Newcastle residents on the front line and at home during the First World War, thanks to a £9,200 grant. The Borough Museum and Art Gallery has received the money from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project called “Newcastle Remembers”. The borough council’s scheme, commemorating the…
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Kings Bromley Historians held a very successful event commemorating the Great War on Saturday 9th August. The event showed what life was like in the village during the war using contemporary documents, photos and artifacts. A display for each year allowed the visitor to ‘walk through’ the war using extracts from the parish magazine, headmaster’s log and vestry minutes. Individual…
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Stories of a conscientious objector and baker deemed essential to food provision are just two included in a rare collection of appeal tribunals against conscription in WW1 set to be revealed through a new project. All military appeal tribunal records across the country were ordered to be destroyed after the war – but an oversight…
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More information about Great War commemorations in Stoke on Trent can be found on http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/community/community/first-world-war-centenary.en
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The Hidden Pressures of Staffordshire’s War is part of the Digital War Memorial. It brings together communities and artists across the UK to make unique creative responses to the First World War Centenary. Using the rich resources of local libraries and archives as the starting point, these new artworks tell the diverse stories of how the First…
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On the day that Helen Grant MP, Minister for the First World War Centenary, opens a new exhibition at the Wellington Arch honouring First World War Memorials, English Heritage and the DCMS have also announced that the listed status of five major London war memorials have been upgraded. The Edith Cavell Memorial, St Martin’s Place,…
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A new guide produced by Staffordshire County Council’s Archives Service is helping local communities discover more about their WWI war memorials. The free 92-page guide has been put together as part of the county’s plans to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the start of the Great War and can be downloaded on the resource tab.…
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More than 300, 000 Great War records have been released by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to show how Britain came to commemorate its war dead. The Commission is responsible for marking and caring for the graves and memorials of over 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two…
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As part of a countrywide project on Geograph the surviving Drill Halls at the onset of the Great War have been recorded. The Staffordshire collection is reasonably complete. To view the listing log in to http://www.geograph.org.uk/content/?q=Drill%20Halls
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Everyone in the UK is invited to take part in LIGHTS OUT by turning off their lights from 10pm to 11pm on 4 August, leaving on a single light or candle for a shared moment of reflection. People can take part in whatever way they chose, marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First…
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