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J.R.R. Tolkien in Staffordshire Project leads invited to VIP opening of Tolkien – Maker of Middle-earth exhibition at Bodleian Library

On Thursday 31st May, Library Stock Services and Activities Officer, Scott Whitehouse, along with local historian and Haywood Society member, David Robbie, representing Staffordshire’s Great War, Staffordshire Library and Art Service and the Tolkien in Staffordshire Project, attended the VIP reception event and private viewing of the Bodleian Library’s and Tolkien Trust’s once in a…

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Tamworth and District Civic Society Volunteers

Diane Wells is from Tamworth and District Civic Society. Since the beginning of 2017 Diane has led a group of volunteers from the Tamworth and District Civic Society in locating and recording the condition of more than 80 of the area’s war memorials. The group began their project with some training on carrying out a…

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A new book about conscientious objectors in parts of the Midlands 1916-18

WHO DOES WANT TO KILL ANYONE The Story of Conscientious Objection in mid-Staffordshire and the Black Country in WW1 by Gerry Barton and John Babb “Who Does Want To Kill Anyone?” is an account of WW1 conscientious objection in Mid – Staffordshire and the Black Country. It uses the Mid-Staffs Appeal Tribunal Papers from Stafford…

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Tolkien’s Great War Staffordshire Tale to be Published

J. R. R. Tolkien’s story The Fall of Gondolin largely written in Staffordshire at Great Haywood in 1916-17 is to be published for the first time as a standalone title later this year. This new version, edited by Tolkien’s 93-year old son, Christopher, will bring together the original account written for The Book of Lost…

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Battles Over

In commemoration and remembrance of the end of the war and the many millions who were killed or came home dreadfully wounded, a chain of 1,000 beacons will be lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories at 7pm on the 11 November 2018 – a century after the…

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Processions Launches

Registration opens today for PROCESSIONS, one of the UK’s largest ever mass participation artworks, produced by Artichoke and commissioned by 14-18 NOW. On Sunday 10 June 2018, women and girls – including those who identify as women and non-binary individuals – will walk together in their tens of thousands through Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London.…

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There But Not There

The installation of 51 transparent seated military figures in the Penshurst Church over Remembrance 2016 lit a touch paper in the psyche of all who saw it. Given that widespread resonance, There But Not There aims to place a representative figure for as many as possible of the names on local war memorials, around the…

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