Our next Remembering the First World War event will take place on Thursday 8th November, 5-8p.m. The first part of the evening will include talks from Hertfordshire museum staff on their collections and plans for the centenary year of 2014. Other contributions will include an insight into the ways that other combatant countries have approached the issue of memorials, and the work of the War Memorials Trust. There will also be time within the programme for short soapbox updates on your own research, and you are welcome to bring along any marketing or promotional material for display.

The second part of the evening will begin at 7p.m. and will be a performance of a play, written in 1918 by a Letchworth playwright, Maude Deuchar, entitled The Handmaidens of Death.

Please e-mail me if you are planning to attend, and if you are bringing along materials for display then let me know what you need from us.

Practicalities

The first part of the event will be held on the second floor of R Block, on the University's de Havilland campus. If you enter from the Reception end of The Street, then make your way to the further end of the building towards the Weston Auditorium, and take the last staircase or lift to the second floor. Entering from the far entrance (the Sports Village end of the car park), turn right and take the staircase or lift.

We will have a desk and volunteers on hand in the space outside the Weston Auditorium to point you in the right direction.

The performance of Handmaidens of Death will take place in the Comet Room of the Club de Havilland. This can be found at the further end of the de Havilland car park, to the left of the Hertfordshire Sports Village.

I have attached a campus map which should help you locate the rooms.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available

We hope you will be able to join us and any questions then do get in touch

Best wishes

Julie Moore

http://heritagehub.herts.ac.uk/