What’s on in York: with Author Wendy Holden at Acomb Explore Library

Acomb Explore Library :

Fri 18 Nov :

2.30pm – 4.00pm :

Free

Nov 18-Wendy HoldenJoin 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

What’s on in York: Landscapes of Remembrance

Acomb Explore Library :

Sat 19th Nov :

9.00am – 2.00pm :

Free

Nov 11_landscapes ColourLandscapes 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

What’s on in York: Join Inkwell with a fantastic WWI Creative Writing Workshop

Acomb Explore Library :

Sat 29 Oct :

10.00am – 11.00am :

Free

29Oct _InkwellJoin Children’s University Inkwell with this exciting WWI Creative Writing workshop looking at Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse and more!

Join Children’s University Inkwell with this exciting WWI Creative Writing workshop.

Explore the themes of storytelling, how stories of the past are told and take part in this exciting WWI Creative Writing workshop! Looking at Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse and more fantastic literature based in WWI.

What’s on in York: Arthur Walkers Great War

Acomb Explore Library :

Tue 25 Oct :

1.00pm – 2.00pm &

2.00pm – 3.00pm :

£2

25Oct _chris Cade YortimeJoin us or “Arthur Walkers Great War” a recreation of life as a soldier in WWI.

‘It is of little comfort to Mrs Walker to receive a letter describing her son as ‘a credit to his mother,’ when it also reports him missing.’

Actor Chris Cade will play real Yorkshire veteran Arthur Walker in this interactive tale of Arthur’s journey.

Join him as Arthur is recruited, fights in the trenches and is taken prisoner!

£2/child, £4 family ticket (up to 3 children)

Tickets can be booked

In person: call in at any library in York
By phone: 01904 552828 or 01904 552651
Email: york@exploreyork.org.