All lectures are free and will take place in MC001, University of Wolverhampton – 5.30pm-7pm Wednesday 1st March 2017, Dr Rob Johnson (Pembroke College Oxford), ‘Rethinking L
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Hannah Reynolds, a local Staffordshire artist, has been asked by The Tolkien Society to create their Christmas card for 2016. Each year a different artist is invited to create a Christmas ca
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A series of individual tile paintings created by members of Kidsgrove Town Council and friends has been mounted in Kidsgrove Library, The Avenue, Kidsgrove for public viewing. The tile p
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This year, Civic Voice has gone that extra mile to make sure every community in England has been given the chance to get involved in the First World War Memorials Programme. Civic Voice has
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On Saturday 29 October 2016, a bracing Autumnal morning, and with a light drizzle threatening, three additional stakes were added to the Shot at Dawn Memorial (created by Birmingham artist A
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Article from Civic Voice. Based in Sutton Coldfield, Ynyr Owen first got involved in the First World War Memorials Programme after attending a Civic Voice war memorials workshop in Birmingha
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The University of Wolverhampton First World War Research Group is pleased to announced Saturday Study Day dates for 2017 will be: Saturday 25 February 2017 Saturday 6 May 2017 Saturday 18
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The Civic Voice First World War Memorials Programme is encouraging people to look more closely at their local war memorials and to take action to ensure they are fitting tributes to those wh
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A new book in the series of Commemorating the Great War has been published focusing on Foxlowe. Here is the story of how at least 59 Leek women ran a hospital for wounded soldiers in Foxlow
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As part of the Friends of Cannock Chase’s Heritage Lottery Funded Reaching Out Arms project, groups of people have been able to visit the World War 1 sites as part of guided coach tour
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