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September 2014
Conference: Home Fronts: Gender, War and Conflict
This Women's History Network Annual Conference will draw upon the perspectives of women’s and gender history and explore practical and emotional survival on the Home Front.
Find out more »Performance: ‘A Family Concern: The Jewellery Quarter at War’
Discover one family's story of the First World War A series of special promenade drama performances in the historic setting of the Smith & Pepper factory at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. The story of a family business and the changing trade of the Jewellery Quarter during the First World War. Go back in time to hear the stories of people’s lives during the war. Performed by Pattern 23 Theatre Company 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 September, 7pm…
Find out more »Talk: William Weller and the white feather movement
Wolverhampton City Archivist Heidi McIntosh will give a talk about local architect William Weller and the First World War white feather movement. Wolverhampton City Archives 10th September 5pm
Find out more »Performance: Sam Sweeney’s Fiddle – Made in the Great War
In 2009 Sam Sweeney, fiddle player with Bellowhead, bought a violin in Oxford. It had all the appearance of a new instrument but the label inside gave the date 1915 and the name Richard S Howard. Research revealed that the violin had been made – but never finished – by a luthier and some-time music hall performer from Leeds called Richard Spencer Howard. He had been conscripted in 1915 at the age of 35 and two years later was killed…
Find out more »Exhibition: Craft and Conflict
Craft and Conflict brings together both contemporary and historical items that commemorate and explore the themes of war and remembrance. Included in the exhibition are examples of how local companies and their workforces assisted with the war effort during the First World War, by fabricating items such as grenades, helmets and even service vehicles. Also on display are examples of work by contemporary craft makers who explore themes of conflict and peace, addressing the human aspect of war and the…
Find out more »Performance: WW1 Magic Lantern Show
Original slides from the Great War accompanied by music, readings and poetry. FREE entry. Pre-booking essential, call 0121 348 8120 to book your tickets!
Find out more »Performance: Birmingham Bach Choir: Unfinished Remembering
To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the 1914-18 War the Birmingham Bach Choir has commissioned the poet Euan Tait and its own conductor/composer, Paul Spicer, to write a major choral and orchestral work for performance on 13 September 2014.
Find out more »Performance: Musical Meditations on the First World War
Sam Lee and members of The Unthanks present Musical Meditations on the First World War. Folk’s finest breathe fresh life into the music, lives and traditions of a lost generation.
Find out more »Talk: Rural Life in the Great War
Rural Life in the Great War: a talk by Dr Nick Mansfield Dr Nick Mansfield is the former director of the People’s History Museum, Manchester and currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism 1900-1930 (2001); The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Soldiers and Sailors, 1917-1921-a view from the Marches (article, 2004) and most recently Buildings of the Labour Movement, English Heritage, (2013) Thursday 18th September 2014,…
Find out more »Exhibition: Voices of War
The Voices of War exhibition will consider how the First World War was experienced by the people of Birmingham, drawing on the rich archive, photography and special collections of the Library of Birmingham.
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