Dr Santanu Das, Reader in the Department of English, King’s College London
India joined WW1 as part of the British empire, contributing nearly one and half million men, including 900,000 combatants and 600,000 non-combatants, who served in places as far-flung as France, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Egypt and the Far East.
Drawing from archives in Europe and India – letters, diaries, original sound-recordings from German POW camps, photographs, paintings, and literary representations by both British and Indian writers – this lecture will investigate the Indian war...
A leading foster care provider is looking for foster homes in Plymouth for young unaccompanied sanctuary seekers from war-ravaged countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Under the Children Act 1989, it is the legal responsibility of local authorities to care for under 18s who arrive in the country from abroad seeking sanctuary. However, with local authorities reportedly...
Running time: 85 minutes Certificate: UK Language: English
Director: Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas Cast: Fay Compton, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey. Introduction by Dr Simon Topping, Plymouth University
Tell England is set before the outbreak of WW1 and shows the friendship between two men before they enlist. Both directors had close memories of Gallipoli, as did Fay Compton's brother, Compton Mackenzie. Asquith's father H. H. Asquith had been Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, a fact which drew press attention to the film, while Geoffrey Barkas...
A Plymouth man has been found guilty of a number of historic child abuse charges at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday (25th September).
Hinton Sheryn was found guilty of 18 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency with children dating back to the 1970s and 80s; one of Sheryn’s victims was as young as six at the time of the abuse.
Rick Nodine Mary Prestidge Amy Voris Adam Benjamin Jane Mclean Seke Chimuntengwende
60 minutes of unscripted, un-choreographed creativity; six dancers, in Plymouth as part of Inquiring Bodies 3, will meet on stage prepared for instant decision-making and compositional choices.
Inquiring Bodies 3 is funded by Cheshire Dance with support from Plymouth University.
Saturday 14 November 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Grieg: Solveig's song (arrangement for violin and piano) Sibelius: Five pieces for Piano, Op.75 Glinka: Trio - Pathétique Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel, for cello and piano Gade: Piano Trio op.42 in F major Dyson: Lowlands Away for violin and cello
From a Norwegian drama to a Scottish voyage, through early Russian music and Estonian instrumental dialogue, this musical endeavour will take us deep into the harmonies of the Baltic and North seas, sailing on waves of common Northern...
The automatic enrolment countdown for thousands of small and micro businesses across the South West has begun and The Pensions Regulator is calling on employers to act now.
The law has changed so that around 115,000 employers across the South West will have to meet their new pensions duties.
Across the UK, up to 1.8 million employers will have automatic enrolment duties over...
Professor Mary Joannou, Emerita Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University
'Engaging women' will examine the cultural heritage of women's struggle for the vote and how the suffrage movement inspired women's creativity using examples drawn from literature, poetry, dance, music, theatre, painting, ceramics and banner making.
Mary Joannou is an authority on late Victorian and early 20th-century women’s writing. She is the author of nine books, guest editor of special issues of 'Literature and History, Critical...
Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across, and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right. Working with research into the phenomenon of confirmation bias, Confirmation is an attempt to have an honourable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. To find out how we believe what we believe, and how we can end up so far apart.
A 2014 Fringe First award-winning show: written and performed by Chris Thorpe (Unlimited Theatre, Third Angel), developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin (The TEAM).
Dr Kristofer Allerfeldt, Lecturer in American History, University of Exeter
Dr Kristofer Allerfeldt is an expert on modern American history from the end of the Civil War to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, and specialises in deviancy and bigotry, working on all aspects of crime and racism, nativism and prejudice. He has published works on anti-immigrant sentiment, visions of Americanism, the Ku Klux Klan and crime in general. His lecture looks at the Henry Ford Peace Expedition which carried a delegation of Americans to Norway, Sweden, and Holland to meet with fellow European...
