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 Gre
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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 recordin
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From 2016 to 2018, Historic England was a partner in The Chase Through Time project. This explored the rich history of Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) from the air an
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School children from across Staffordshire will get the chance to learn more about life on the home front during the Great War in a new exhibition, thanks to Heritage Lottery Funding. The ‘
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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 ac
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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
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The Imperial War Museum is delighted to announce the search facility enabling the public to search for over 1 million names on war memorials is now live. The War Memorials Register is the na
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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 Kingd
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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 g
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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, T
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