‘The Accrington Pals’ is being performed by Rubery Drama Group.
Sponsored by the Community for Reconciliation the proceeds will go to peace projects.
The Community for Reconciliation are holding a Service of Reconciliation at St Chad’s Church New Road Rubery on the eve of the anniversary of the outbreak of WW1.
Speakers: Dr Antony Best, Dr Paul Mulvey, Professor David Stevenson. This event will assess the First World War’s importance in global history, and as a turning point in Europe’s relations with the wider world.
Speakers: Lindsey German (STW) + No Glory speaker + Richard Guthrie (Bath UN Association), Dave Pearce. World War 1 was instrumental in defining the 20th Century. Using all the power of the new technology available it caused the deaths of 9 million combatants including almost 2000 from Bath. It had an indelible impact on those who lived through it and many commentators reflected on its legacy.
Speakers: Neil Faulkner (historian). Historian Neil Faulkner will talk about WW1 and the No Glory campaign before a showing of a film.
Readings by: AL Kennedy, Blake Morrison, Michael Rosen, George Szirtes, Samuel West. Music by: Matthew Crampton, Nette Robinson and the Lyric Ensemble.
Organised by No Glory for Conscientious Objectors' Day. (Nearest tube Tottenham Court Rd)
Speakers: Neil Faulkner (historian) and others.
Speakers: Chris Nineham.
Speakers: Julian Brazier MP. John Blake History teacher, editor of Labour Teachers. Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition. Jeremy Corbyn MP. In the year commemorating the start of the first world war 100 years ago, how should the war be remembered? Was it, as education secretary Michael Gove believes, "a noble and just cause" defending freedom and liberal democracy? Or was it a slaughter that killed over 15 million people waged by imperial powers competing to carve up the world and its resources?
Speakers:Lindsey German, National Convenor of Stop the War Coalition, Paul Flynn MP, Bethan Jenkins AM (tbc) and an anti-war veteran.
Speakers:Neil Faulkner (historian).
Imagining an era when violent conflicts have ceased, The Post War Orchestra transforms deactivated weapons and other military equipment into musical instruments.
Starting 10.45am from the War Memorial outside the Guildhall. Alice Wheeldon was accused of plotting to poison the then Prime Minister David Lloyd George. It is believed that Alice and her family were framed by MI5 to raise sympathy for the Government and to act as a deterrent to the increasing numbers of people who were calling for an end to the war. Family members have spent years campaigning to clear her name.
Public Meeting. Speakers: Neil Faulkner and Jane Shallice.
Speakers: Dr Clive Barrett, University of Bradford. Dr Neil Faulkner, Bristol University. Chair: Dr Claudia Baldoli, Newcastle University School of History/Classics/Archaeology Newcastle. Welcome: Rev Andii Bowsher, Martin Luther King Committee, Northumbria.
The upcoming centenary of the First World War has already sparked great debate and public comment about how we should remember and commemorate the conflict. Whereas the popular television show Blackadder and the poetry of Wilfred Owen conjure notions of a horrific and futile tragedy, it has also been argued that the First World War was a necessary and worthwhile struggle for freedom.
Speakers Bruce Kent and Richard Finn op.
Two's Company presents Forgotten Voices from the Great War: What the Women Did. Luck of War by Gwen John. Handmaidens of Death by Herbert Tremaine. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals by J M Barrie. The First World War was fought in the mud of the trenches, on the beaches of Gallipoli and in massive battles at sea – but it was also fought at home. a whole new world opened up for women who had to take over men’s work, notably in the munitions factories. But they still had to hold their homes together, often with the wry humour we see in these plays.
