CHANGE OF LECTURE . David Haycock has had to withdraw due to an unavoidable personal commitment. We hope to be able to re-schedule for a future date. Our Programme Secretary, Ann Jolly, works 18 months to 2 years in advance, so 4 weeks presented a challenge and we didn’t want to compromise on quality. Therefore we were delighted when we found Max Jones from the University of Manchester was available. He comes highly recommended by other Societies. Read about his lecture below:-
Six million Britons served in the armed forces during the Great War. One in eight perished. The legions of the bereaved launched a wave of commemorative projects, erecting thousands of memorials which still mark the landscape of countryside and city today. We will explore how artists developed new strategies to represent loss on an unprecedented scale, how bitter disputes scarred many projects, and how memorials helped families grieve for those they had lost.