AN EXHIBITION to mark a hundred years since the start of the First World War has been unveiled at The Hive.
The Worcestershire Great War Exhibition, which began on Monday (August 4), includes photographs and documents based on three main themes – gender and home front, childhood, and cities at war – and commemorates how the war touched and changed the lives of people across Worcestershire.
The display is part of the Worcestershire World War One Hundred programme – one of the largest across England and will commemorate the First World War from 2014 to 2018 with exhibitions, parades, concerts, church services and remembrance events, involving cultural and heritage organisations county-wide.
Dr Adrian Gregson, Worcestershire World War One Hundred project manager, said: “The exhibition is a showcase of material which we hope will inspire local people to come forward with their own letters, diaries, photographs and stories.
“Once it ends here at The Hive, the exhibition will be toured around the county over the next four years.
“In this World War One commemorative project we are also building towards a collection of archives that the public will bring forward so that the full story of the war and Worcestershire can be told and held as a legacy for the future.”
The exhibition has been part-funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Voices of War and Peace, First World War Engagement Centre and is free of charge.
The Hive will also be hosting a debate on ‘Have we forgotten the horrors of war?’ in November, as part of the Worcestershire World War 100 programme, with the Royal Society of Arts.
For information on the full Worcestershire World War One Hundred programme visit: http://www.ww1worcestershire.co.uk/ or follow @WW1Worcs on Twitter.
