Learning packs keep Asunder legacy alive
SUNDERLAND schoolchildren will learn about life during the First World War through music and songwriting as part of a legacy…
‘Just like George’: Why Mike McGrother is walking to France to lay sunflowers on a soldier’s grave
A Stockton musician is walking from Easingwold to Esquelbecq to lay tributes at the grave of a First World War…
Booklet to help commemorate those who fought in First World War
As Remembrance Day approaches, North Yorkshire libraries have produced a guide for people who what find out about their First…
US Ambassador opens First World War exhibit at Newcastle Central Station
Newcastle NE1, the city’s Business Improvement District, has welcomed the Acting US Ambassador to the United Kingdom to the North…
Brothers’ bravery inspires new drama at Gala Theatre
A cast of talented North East professional actors will take to the stage next month to re- create one of…
New War Memorial Unveiled At All Saints
Middlesbrough Mayor Dave Budd and All Saints’ Church’s Father Glyn Holland this week (Monday, June 20) unveiled a replacement war…
Somme And First World War Remembered At Museum & Winter Gardens
Armed Forces Day is being marked with events at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens commemorating the forthcoming 100th anniversary of…
Commemoration of Zeppelin Attack on Sunderland
GENERATIONS are coming together to remember those who lost their lives in the First World War Zeppelin attack on Sunderland.
Diaries of First World War nurse reveal lifesavers’ heroism on the Western Front
They were the “Florence Nightingales” of the First World War trenches, saving countless lives amid the horrors of the Western…
Family fun day at Durham County Record Office
Families are being invited to honour fallen First World War soldiers, make medieval-style illuminated letters, create cameras, and discover how…
WW1 local history fair
All are welcome to attend a First World War local history fair at Discovery Museum on Tuesday 17 November, 10am…
11 11 11 – Armistice Day and Two Minutes Silence
A TWO minute silence is being marked in Sunderland on Wednesday 11 November.
Always Heroes
PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE GENERATIONS will meet at St Robert of Newminster Catholic School to remember the bravery of those…
Ceremony will honour village’s First World War hero
Crowds are expected to gather in a County Durham village this week to remember a First World War soldier who…