Event: Discover the First World War

Discover the First World War with HLF

A workshop for individuals and groups who are considering a bid for HLF funding to run a WW1 project

Tuesday 4 April 2017, 9.30 – 1pm
Clore Discovery Centre, National Museum of Wales
Cathays Park, Cardiff  CF10 3NP

9.30am: Registration and coffee

9.45: Gethin Matthews (Swansea University) – Welcome and introduction to the day

10.00: Keith Lilley (‘Living Legacies 1914-18’) – what the AHRC WW1 Public Engagement Centres can do for your community project

10.15: Stephen Barlow (HLF) – Overview of available HLF funding and application process for FWW: Then and Now programme

10.30: HLF Project Case study – ‘Flintshire war memorials’, Eifion & Vivien Williams

11.00: Coffee break

11.30: Berian Elias (National Library of Wales) – Using digital technology to gather and share information; People’s Collection Wales

12.00: HLF Project Case studies: ‘Gwrol Ryfelwyr Caersalem Newydd’ + ‘Welsh Memorials to the Great War’; ‘Wales Remembers’, Gethin Matthews

12.15: Q&A with speakers + opportunity to discuss ideas

12.45: Buffet lunch (provided) and networking

• In the afternoon there will be a showcase event, organised by the five WW1 Engagement Centres, which will allow the opportunity for funded projects to come and share their work and to find out more about the engagement centres.  For further information on participating please contact Nicola Gauld at the Voices of War & Peace centre, n.gauld@bham.ac.uk. 

• In the evening, at 7.30pm in Cardiff University’s Continuing & Professional Education Building, 21–23 Senghennydd Road, Dr Nick Mansfield will be giving a public lecture on ‘How the British working class won the First World War: patriotism, protest and commemoration’.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT MEG RYDER (research assistant for ‘Welsh Memorials to the Great War’) m.c.ryder@swansea.ac.uk