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Local cultural organisation ‘Portsmouth Poetry’ has been awarded a grant of £10,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project “I Died In Hell” which will commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917.  The project will focus on telling the story of Portsmouth people who participated in one of the worst conflicts of the First World War. The project will research participation by soldiers and civilians from Portsmouth in the battle which claimed over half a million lives. The experiences of local people will be illustrated in a month long exhibition in Portsmouth Cathedral as part of the 2017 Portsmouth Festivities and the results of the research will […]

An exhibition that maps the distribution of men from Portsmouth and the local area who died during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 has opened at the History Centre in Portsmouth’s Central Library. The free exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Dr Rob James, his Research Assistant, John Bolt, and the Portsdown branch of the University of the Third Age. The exhibition is open until 23 June. The project, the final stage of which will be the production on an online map to be hosted on the University’s Port Towns and Urban Cultures website (http://porttowns.port.ac.uk/), was funded by an award from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Click […]