November 2015

Free Historical Talks - North Down Museum
Wednesday 25th November 2015 at 7.30pm

Series of Historical talks about the First World War2015-10-14 = Free Historical Talks - North Down Museum

Please contact the Museum Resception to book your space, 02891 271200 or email museum@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk

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Discussion event: Whose War? Whose Memory? Teaching the First World War in International Perspective
19th November 2015

2015-11-19 # Voices at War

Thursday 19 November, 17:00-19:30
Room 417, 4th Floor, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT (R21 on the University Campus Map)

For this event, we will be joined by Professor Eckhardt Fuchs, Dr Barbara Christophe and Dr Kerstin Schwedes (TU Braunschweig), Dr Catriona Pennell (University of Exeter), and Peter Glasgow (Peace Pledge Union) who will each present for twenty minutes. This will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

We ask you to please register online for this event as places are limited.

This event is being organised by the Voices of War & Peace WW1 Engagement Centre (funded by the AHRC), the Institute for German Studies, DOMUS, the University of Northampton, and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research.


Image: Library of Birmingham 

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War graves at Belfast City Cemetery
Saturday 14th November 2015 at 2.00 pm

2015-11-14 = Castleton LanternsYou are invited to join us for a presentation of the Castleton Lanterns.

Alexandra Presbyterian Church

Saturday 14th November 2015

2.00 PM

 

Also presenting a short filin from 

Hisoty Hub Ulster

Based on was graves at Belfast City Cemetery

 

This film has been made in conjuction with Big Ideas Company and Commonwealth War Graves Comission

Please come along and bring your friends

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Researching East Belfast and the Great War
12th November 2015 from 7.00pm to 8.45pm; cost £4.00 (Donation)

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Antrim and Down
Western Front Association Branch

Subject : Researching East Belfast and the Great War

Speaker : Jason Burke, Project Co-ordinator: East Belfast & The Great War

Venue : The Branch meets from 7pm to 8.45pm at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 2 Titanic Boulevard, BELFAST, BT3 9HQ

Donation: We ask for £4 to help support our activities as we have no other source of income

Please click the poster for further details

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Free Historical Talks - North Down Museum
Wednesday 11th November 2015 at 7.30pm

Series of Historical talks about the First World War2015-10-14 = Free Historical Talks - North Down Museum

Please contact the Museum Resception to book your space, 02891 271200 or email museum@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk

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The Photographers’ Life during WW1
Tuesday 10th November at 7.30pm - Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

2015-11-10 # The Photographers’ Life during WW1National Museums Northern IrelandTime/Date - 19:30 - 21:30, Tuesday 10 November 2015

An illustrated talk on WW1 photography as seen from a photographer’s point of view by Bryan F. Rutledge BA

Spend an evening with the Friends of Cultra to hear Bryan Rutledge give us an illustrated talk on WW1 photography as seen from a photographer’s point of view: what could be photographed, what equipment did they use, who took photographs and what happened to the photographs.

With over 30 year’s experience, specialising in Heritage, Museum, Artefact & Fine Art Photography (including 28 years as museum photographer at the Ulster Museum) Bryan’s knowledge of WW1 photography is amazing. There is no entrance charge for this and all will be most welcome to join us in the Lagan Room for what promises to be a riveting evening. 

Useful information and links

  • This event is free of charge, all welcome.
  • The talk will take place in the Lagan Room within the Education Courtyard, Ballycultra Town area.
  • Tea, coffee and biscuits will be offered for a small charge.
  • Friends of Cultra
  • Ulster Folk & Transport Museum opening times & Google maps journey finder.

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Being Young during WW1 conference programme announced
7 November 2015 - Manchester Metropolitan University

2015-11-07 # Being Young during WW1 conference programme announced

Please join us for this international conference to examine the effects of the First World War on children and young people, and its social and psychological legacies.

 

Growing up in a period of conflict had an immense impact on the young. There were deep fears and anxieties, but also freedoms and opportunities. For some, the costs were relationships traumatised by separation and the death or injury of family members and friends. For others, school lives were disrupted, adult supervision relaxed and wages rose as a result of labour shortage. Some were caught up in the military excitements of war and enlisted as boy soldiers; others protested and took part in strike action. The image of the child became a potent figure in propaganda and patriotic parades and performances, while war themes became a popular theme in juvenile literature.

PROGRAMME OUT NOW! The draft conference programme is out now: Being Young in World War One Conference Programme

COMMUNITY HISTORY CALL! Have you and/ or your local history group researched the history of youth or the home-front in World War One? Would you like to display or talk about your work at this event? If so, please get in touch!

Please also join us on the evening of Friday 6 November 2015 for the following events:


To book: to book your FREE place for the Being Young During World War One conference, go to  www.beingyoungww1.eventbrite.co.uk.

To find us: the conference will be held in Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M15 6BH (Campus Map and directions here)

To stay over: If you intend to stay in Manchester during the conference, you can find a list of nearby hotels here.

For more information about the conference, please contact Dr Fiona Cosson,f.cosson@mmu.ac.uk

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The Western Front Association
Playing the Game: Sport, Ireland and The Great War 5th November 2015

2015-11-05 # Sport, Ireland and the Great WarPlaying the Game: Sport, Ireland and The Great War

A joint conference by PRONI and Antrim and Down Western Front Association branch

5 November 2015 (Thursday), 10.00 for 10.30 until 16.00
Venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 2 Titanic Boulevard, BELFAST, BT3 9HQ.

10.00: Arrival, registration and morning tea/coffee

10.30-10.45 – Welcome, introduction and opening remarks by Ian Montgomery, PRONI and Tom Thorpe, Chair, Antrim and Down WFA

Session 1 – The Home Front (Chair: Dr Timothy Bowman, University of Kent)

10.45-11.15 – Tara Lynne O’Neil – Women’s Football and the Great War

11.15-11.45 – Dónal McAnallen, The GAA and the First World War

11.45-12.15 – Ian Montgomery, PRONI, Football in Ireland during the First World War

12-15-13.00 – Panel discussion

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

Session 2 – At the front (Chair: Stephen Scarth, PRONI)

14.00-14.30 – Dr Tim Bowman, University of Kent, Recruiting Sportsmen’s Units in Ireland

14.30-15.00 – Tom Thorpe, King’s College London – The Military Value of Sport

15.00-15.30 – Steven Walker, Political Correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland, Irish Sportsmen and the Great War and author of Ireland's Call: Irish Sporting Heroes who died in the Great War (published in September 2015 by Merrion Press).

15.30-16.00 – Panel discussion/closing remarks

 

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Omagh Family History Society
5th November 2015 at 7.00pm

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Open Meeting

Nurses and Volunteers

Their Personal Stories of the Great War

All Welcome

 Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park Omagh
Thursday 5th November 2015 at 7pm

Speaker
Dr. Johanne Devlin Trew University of Ulster

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