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FUNGUS FOUND AT SCOTTISH Events

UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MAY
UNTIL 11 FEBRUARY
HAVE COME FROM FLANDERS Family History: Tracing Your
The former hospital was a refuge for shell-shocked troops World War One Ancestors
This course is designed for anybody
looking to trace their ancestors
after being pick
fungus discovered growing on after being picked from the First World War, with
ed
the campus of Edinburgh Napier up by soldiers in the expert help of Robert Parker
y soldiers in
up b
the trenches.”
AUniversity may have originated the trenches. ” and some key historical records.
Several thousand
from the battlefields of Flanders. Sever al thousand Witchford Village College,
That’s the theory of ecologist men were sent to Cambridgeshire. 07803 129207;
men were sent to
Craiglockhart during
Abbie Patterson, who found traces of Cr aiglockhar t during www.great-war.ccan.co.uk
the Great War, among
clavulinopsis cinereoides – foreign to the Great W ar , among
them poets Sie
Scotland but not to Europe – while carrying them poets Siegfried UNTIL 9 MARCH
gfried
out a biodiversity audit. She believes it Sassoon and W ilfred War Games
Sassoon and Wilfred
may developed from spores deposited Owen. Their friendship Thought-provoking exhibition
friendship
Their
Owen.
at the hospital is
from the boots of soldiers sent to the at the hospital is exploring the relationship between
site – formerly Craiglockhart Hospital described in the conflict and children’s play.
described in the
– suffering from shell-shock. P Pat Barker novel Includes toys, photographs and
er novel
at Bark
,
Reg
eneration
“Group photographs taken during Regeneration, documents. V&A Museum of
the Great War show soldiers and nurses and the film of Childhood, London. 020 8983 5200;
and the film of
lined up on the very grassy bank where the same www.museumofchildhood.org.uk
the same
name.
I discovered the fungus,” says Patterson. name.
“It is not hard to make a direct link iStockphoto
between these soldiers and the fact that
this fungus was growing there. Its spores
may have been brought over to this country
EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF
CHURCHILL DISCOVERED
8 FEBRUARY
RARE DOCUMENTS OF THE WARTIME PRIME MINISTER’S SCHOOLDAYS WERE IN DAIRY BARN Bristol to Weston-Super-Mare
Sponsored Walk
In aid of the True Heroes charity.
L Rescued by the owner, they Director of Save Photo, Starting from Bristol city centre
Peter Boswell, Managing
ooking at the pictures
were then taken to Save Photo
of the sulky schoolboy
at 8.30am. 07742 051378;
www.justgiving.com/Tony-Hall7
staring out from Save
privileged to work with such a
The Churchill photographs
Photo’s website, it’s hard to to be restored and digitised. comments, “We have been very
8 FEBRUARY – 29 MARCH
believe that he would one day were taken between the years unique collection of historical Everybody’s Darling:
go on to be the Prime Minister significance. Our team have The First World War Nurse Exhibition
of England and lead the country The pictures show been working on an intensive Fascinating display exploring the
to victory in the Second World programme of conservation and many different nursing organisations
War. But it is, indeed, Sir Winston the future PM archiving. We have been lovingly that helped wounded soldiers
Churchill – in a series of very in both school inspecting each photographic throughout the course of the First
rare photographs of the leader plate to ensure it is carefully World War, including first-hand
that have just been released. uniform and full cleaned, recorded and stored accounts from the nurses themselves.
The photos were part of military garb in a high-quality archival sleeve. Mansfield Museum,
a massive, 90,000-strong With the First World War Nottinghamshire. 08444 775678.
www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum
collection of glass-plate negatives centenary events beginning this
depicting every pupil and staff of 1889 and 1892, and show year, I’m delighted that we have
member who attended Harrow the future Prime Minister in a been able to add these amazing
School between 1860 and 1965. number of guises, from wearing lost images to the portfolio of
Taken by Hills and Saunders, they his school uniform to standing known Churchill images.”
somehow ended up in the dairy proudly in full military garb during The plates will go on sale at
auction later this year.
his time with the Rifle Corps.
barn of a farm near Cirencester. his time with the Rifle Corps. auction later this year.
15 FEBRUARY – 21 APRIL
A Great Estate at War –
Land, Sea and Air
The stories behind the family
members and workers at Blenheim
Palace, birthplace of Winston
Churchill. The tales are brought to
life with scale models and costumed
characters. Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire. 01993 810530;
www.blenheimpalace.com
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