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Dr Peter Hodgkinson will speak on 'Fear and Courage in the Trenches'

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Our speaker, Peter Hodgkinson, is a Clinical Psychologist.  He has an MA (2006) in First World War Studies from Birmingham University, and a PhD (2013) in Infantry Battalion Commanders. Fear is natural in war, but the demand for courage is remorseless. What was the experience of the British soldier of fear, and were the social restrictions...


Lt Col John Sherwood Kelly VC CMG DSO ‘The Bravest Man in the British Army’ with Philip Bujak

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Author and Historian Philip Bujak will be talking about Lt Col John Sherwood Kelly VC CMG DSO ‘The Bravest Man in the British Army’. A former Army officer with the Anglian Regiment who has written on many aspects of the First and Second World Wars.


'Voices From Three Crises: World War One, Covid-19 and Ukraine' - Dr Viv Newman

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Viv Newman presents an overview of how three crises impacted on written culture.  The First World War led to an outpouring of literature, with professional and amateur writers and poets wielding their pens as they sought to make sense of a world that was irrevocably changing lives. Just over a century later, the Covid-19 pandemic had a similar e...