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Showing posts with label First World War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First World War. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

D-Day 80 Display

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Malcom Patterson, Chairman of the Horbury, Sitlington and Ossett branch of the Royal British Legion, contacted us to ask  if we could help w...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Remembrance Day: George Kellett and Arthur Cox

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  On November 11, 1918, Wakefield-born soldier George Kellett wrote in his diary: "We heard that an Armistice had been signed but ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

New Interactive World War 1 Resource: George Kellett's Diary

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What lessons can we learn from World War 1?  How do you teach World War 1 to a child? How do you teach about Remembrance Day? We’ve put t...
Monday, May 10, 2021

New to our collection: First World War bandolier

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We are always looking for objects with a strong local story to add to our collection. Although our museums have been sadly closed for mos...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Armistice100 at Wakefield Museum

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11 th November 2018 marks a hundred years since the end of the First World War. A century ago in northern France, Private George Kellett...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Commemorating World War 1

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It is coming up 98 years since the armistice of World War One. Here at Wakefield Museum we have a variety of objects on display that t...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Commemoration of Local Soldiers and the Battle of the Somme

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On Monday the 20   June, Wakefield Museum was pleased to host a visit by four pupils, Emily-Jo, Rachel, Holly and Nell, and their history...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Oh! What a Lovely War!

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Join us for an evening of persuasion and propaganda! Oh, Oh, Oh What a Lovely War! We have now changed our A Call To Arms exhibi...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The persuasive power of 'Mother'

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As the shops are full of Mother's Day marketing, we look back to 1915 and see that the persuasive powers of 'mother' were used ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

George Kellett's World War One Diary: December 1918

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Throughout 2014 have been tweeting entries from a World War 1 soldier’s 1918 diary. You can follow George Kellett’s diary entries on Twitte...