First World War Day School
Saturday 17 March 2012.
Loughton Cricket Club.
We are delighted to announce that the Loughton Festival will be holding a First World War Day School.
The speakers are all experts in their felds who would like to share their knowledge of the period with both beginners and academics alike.
There will be plenty of time for questions, and the emphasis will be on both international history and local history too.
More information about this special event will follow.
Booking:
Booking is now open. Please send a cheque for £22, made payable to the Loughton Festival with an stamped addressed envelope for the return of your tickets to 18 Wellfields, Loughton, Essex IG10 1NX
It may also be possible for you to join the Day School without booking. Please phone 020 8508 2512 or email
info@loughtonfestival.org.uk to see if there are any places left or phone on the morning of the Day School, from 8am - 9pm.
Speakers:
DR DAVID KENYON
Armoury Keeper, The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey: www.royalgunpwdermills.com
About David Kenyon: www.battlefieldpartnerships.co.uk
DR CHRIS POND
Chairman of the Loughton & District Historical Society (LDHS)
Click on the book to go directly to the LDHS website.
DR PAUL RUSIECKI, will be talking about: 'Living with Conflict: Essex and the Great War'
Author of The Impact of Catastrophe: The People of Essex and the First World War, published by the Essex Record Office.
PROF. DAVID STEVENSON,
Department of International History, London School of Economics; President of the London Historical Association.
Author of several books about the First World War.
With our Backs to the Wall is due out in paperback in the spring of 2012.
Member of the Loughton Festival Committee, David will also be one of the walk leaders on 7 April.
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year: Simon Sebag Montefiore: Stevenson’s With Our Backs to the Wall (Allen Lane, £30) is a groundbreaking account of 1918.
