As part of marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme a call has gone out to the nation, asking people of all ages to take a moment and pay creative tribute to someone affected a century ago by designing a simple memory square. Be it your ancestor, someone who lived on your street, or… Read more
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Looking forward to telling Edie’s story, with Lisa reading extracts from the diaries, at the Wellcome Collection on Saturday 23 April. The event is sold out but have a look at this page for dates of forthcoming ‘Edie’ talks, including at the Royal College of Nurses Conference in Glasgow in June. Interested in having us come… Read more
We are heading Up North this coming week. First to give our presentation on Monday 14 March to the Darlington Lecture Association (this is a private members meeting) and then the next day – Tuesday 15 March – we shall be in the Council Chamber at County Hall in Durham. That’s at 7pm and it’s… Read more
Edie’s great, great niece, Sara Robinson, who has a wealth of experience in community arts, was recently appointed Project Director of the National Commemoration of the Battle of the Somme this coming July. Sara’s prime involvement will be in the events in Manchester on Friday 1 July and some information is available via: www.gov.uk/government/news/nationwide-vigils-to-remember-the-somme. A National Commemorative Service will… Read more
Good to see Edie profiled in 31 December 2015 edition of the ‘Ham and High’. Thanks to journalist Chloe Chaplain who contacted me after a talk we gave to the Friends of Highgate Library back in November. Here below is the article (click to enlarge) or you should be able to see on the H&H… Read more
Special thanks to Chris Weekes for sharing with us his website page on Etretat (it’s here) where Edie served from November 1915 until early 1917. Chris has a holiday flat in the town and has put together lots of photos of particular locations or buildings in the town – as they were 100 years ago… Read more
It’s a year now since the BBC2 TV programme The Great War – an Elegy was first shown and lots of people have been asking whether it can still be seen. The answer is yes! It was a truly beautiful programme made by Zoe Silver and her team for BBC2. A Vimeo version, which includes… Read more
One of Edie’s most surprising stories features in her diary on 31 July 1915. She’s just returned from ten days leave and is back at Casualty Clearing Station No. 3 near Ypres (at that time in Bailleul), not many miles from the front line. She and a nursing friend, Sister Jessie Congleton (more about her here)… Read more
We had the pleasure of giving our Edie presentation in the Officers’ Mess at Army Medical Service HQ in Camberley on Thursday 23 March. We were there as the guests of the Friends of Millbank. Dick told Edie’s story and his wife, Lisa, read extracts from the diaries. Here we are with Frank Davies who did… Read more
Today 5 April 2015 is exactly one hundred years to the day since the first available entry in Edie’s diaries. Here’s what she writes: “…answering each other’s ravings. One of them tells us he has been killed and does his mother know. Certainly death will be no stranger to him, when he comes in a… Read more
