Drop in anytime all day to see original documents about Dringhouses from the York Archives, including the 1624 Samuel Parsons Map of Dringhouses, a real treasure of the Archives.
Archives staff will be on hand to answer your questions and show you the documents.
Can reading Regeneration bring us closer to a real understanding of what the First World War was like? Professor Greg Currie ponders the limits and possibilities of imaginative literature.
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Join us for a roundtable discussion of the connections between Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’, with leading Woolf scholars from Leeds Trinity University.
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Music Hall: often astounding, sometimes awful, always extraordinary! This show celebrates the lives and routines of the artistes the nation loved – some now legendary, many forgotten. Britain had talent!
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Acomb Explore Library :
Fri 18 Nov :
2.30pm – 4.00pm :
Free
Join us for this talk with best-selling author Wendy Holden via Skype about her book “Shell Shock”, companion to a major British television series investigating the psychological effects of war.
In this title, which covers the case histories and painful testimony of numerous veterans and their doctors, individuals tell their own stories of horrors to which they have been exposed, and of events that pushed them to the brink of human endurance.
Shell Shock also relates the history of military psychiatry and the dilemma of those entrusted to balance the demands to ‘cure’ soldiers and return them to battle with the needs of the soldiers themselves, who were struggling to understand their condition
Wendy will also discuss her other work, and latest projects. Author and novelist of thirty books, and a journalist for eighteen years, she has chronicled the lives of many remarkable subjects, from the story of the only woman in the French Foreign Legion to the lives of three babies born in concentration camps Seventy years ago.
Tickets can be booked
In person: call in at any library in York
By phone: 01904 552828 or 01904 552651
Email: york@exploreyork.org.uk
Are your WW1 ancestors proving to be a challenge? Ken and Linda Haywood will be running their First World War Help Desk. Drop in and see what you can discover!
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Landscapes of Remembrance is a York Archaeological Trust project funded by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has explored memorials to the fallen of World War One from an archaeological perspective. We have looked at location, style, symbolism and the background to the creation of these memorials. We have explored records in the archives and gone out into the field to photograph and record details about the monuments.
The Landscape of Remembrance soundscape has been created by Converge students. Inspired by the work of our volunteers they have looked at the records and gone out into the field to consider how we commemorate and how we relate to monuments today.
To find out more about Jorvik Dig please visit our website or call our Reservations Department on 01904 615505
Tickets can be booked
In person: call in at any library in York
By phone: 01904 552828 or 01904 552651
Email: york@exploreyork.org.uk
Bibliotherapists and co-authors of The Novel Cure, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, explore their witty and original approach to curing with fiction.
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