Events

Alec Paton - Wilfred Owen's Forgotten Friend - 01/02/2012 to 31/12/2013

Wilfred Owen's Forgotten Friend tells the story of Alec Paton, Owen's close friend during his time in Birkenhead.

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Gladys Mary Coles - A Double Celebration - 17/03/2012

A talk and reading by Dr Gladys Mary Coles to mark the birth of Wilfred Owen (18th March 1893), and the publication of her own World War I novel "Clay".

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Bullets And Daffodils - 30/03/2012

A performance of Dean Johnson's Bullets And Daffodils at the North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood, where Wilfred Owen stayed whilst commanding the Gunnery Range (where Fleetwood Golf Club now stands) as a Second Lieutenant in The Manchester Regiment in 1916.

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The Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend - 05/05/2012 to 06/05/2012

The Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend. 

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Poets on the Somme - 06/07/2012 to 09/07/2012

This comprehensive tour covers the ground where poets of the First World War, some more famous than others, fought (and in some cases lost their lives) on the Somme between 1915 and 1918. The intention is to gain some understanding of the nature of the various conflicts in which they took part and the roles they played, and to use this context to explore the verse (and some of the prose) they wrote and its relationship with the times, places and circumstances in which it was written. 

The tour is a Western Front Association initiative arranged by their tour partner Battle Honours Ltd. 

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