Ideas
Are you interested in running a project to remember the life and times of our predecessors who lived through the Great war. Are you looking for ideas of what you could do? This page aims to bring together a range if ideas that communities could adopt and adapt to make them their own. Feel free to use any of these and please get in touch if you have other ideas which we can add to the list.
- Poppy planting (talk to us, we can supply seeds!)
- Exhibition of art inspired by the period
- Poetry reading
- Musical recital - music from the period
- Researching the history of names on war memorials and bring their story and the story of their families to a modern audience
- Exploring your family history for ancestors who were alive in 1914-1918
- Repair war memorials
- Publish family stories, photographs and documents from the period online (talk to us we can connect you to useful resources, history groups & museums)
- Displaying pages from newspapers from the period in your church or village hall
- Hold an Edwardian tea party to remember life just before the outbreak of war
- Organise local talks about little known aspects of the war (we can help with contacts and finding speakers)
- Hold a "bake off" using only ingredients available through rationing at the end of the war period
- Create a living history presentation of a recruiting room or a conscientious objector's interview