Today marks the one year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine and with no end in sight, East Devon needs more than 50 new host families to provide refugees with safe homes.
Vulnerable women, children, families and elderly people hoping to escape war-torn Ukraine require your help as part of the UK Government Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Devon-based World Extreme Medicine, the world’s largest global medic network, is sending a fourth convoy to Ukraine to deliver medical training and urgently needed medical supplies directly into the war-torn country.
The initiative, known as Medics4Ukraine, was set up by WEM founder Mark Hannaford earlier in the year in response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
Local authority leaders across Devon have spoken out in concern for the people of Ukraine and their families, following the Russian invasion.
Team Devon authorities, including Devon County and District Councils and the Devon Association of Local Councils, have pledged to work together to support Ukrainian refugees seeking sanctuary in the UK, and have each condemned Russia's actions...
The role of an Exeter-born Royal Navy Lieutenant in helping to protect the fragile independence of Estonia and Latvia at the end of WW1 is one of the personal stories featured in a new book that’s published next month.
Battle in the Baltic , by author and naval historian Steve Dunn, turns the spotlight on the almost forgotten story of the navy’s 13-month brutal conflict in the Baltic...
Professor of History at Exeter University and Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, Martin Thomas has written a number of books about the French colonial empire.
He is especially interested in why the end of European empire was bitterly – and violently – contested in some places but less so in others. He argues that 20th century war in Indochina showed the futility of resisting decolonisation, and could be seen as being a hugely costly and ultimately pointless conflict.
Tickets: £6 (standard), £4.20 (concessions), Peninsula Arts Friends free/ Free...
War Correspondents bears witness to those who risk their lives in extreme circumstances in order to tell the truth to the outside world.
Chadwick and creative collaborator Miriam Nabarro interviewed over 30 journalists working in conflict zones across the world which were then transformed into songs. “I keep hoping that someday, if we keep telling the truth, it will be better for all of us”, so said a Liberian journalist when speaking about why he felt compelled to take such risks telling the stories he dared to tell.
The Mary Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Professor Lucy Bland
Lucy Bland’s research has concentrated on the history of gender, sexuality and feminism in Britain between 1880s-1980s. Her new projects are a social and cultural history of transracial adoption in Britain since World War II and an investigation of mixed race offspring of black GIs and British women born during World War II.
£6/£4.20/Friends free. Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA.
Poppy seeds will be blessed by the Bishop of Plymouth at a civic church service to honour those who lost their lives in the Plymouth Blitz.
The Right Reverend Nick McKinnel will bless the seeds during the service at the Minster Church of St Andrew on Sunday 24 April at 3pm to commemorate 75 years since the city’s darkest hour.
The seeds will then be planted the following day...
At this time of year, we are all remembering those who serve and have served in our armed forces, across the generations.
This is particularly poignant for Plymouth’s HMS Heroes young people, all of whom have had at least one member of their family serving in the military.
Every year the HMS Heroes Choir sing at the Festival of Remembrance at the Plymouth Pavilions, which is...
