Week of events in St Andrews

to commemorate Home Front

To mark 100 years since the end of the Home Front during World War One, a special conference will be held at the University of St Andrews next week. To coincide with the conference, a fantastic programme of public events has been launched. It is called The Home Front: The United Kingdom 19141918 and is being supported by the Scottish Government and the Department of Culture Media and Sport. Next week, a series of community events– including talks, drama, films, music and lectures – will run from Monday (June 18) and until Saturday (June 23). Some of the events are fully booked, but there are still tickets left for others. Here are some highlights of The Home Front programme which are not to be missed: • Public Talk: What does remembrance mean today? Famous author Sebastian Faulks will be joined by Professor Sir Hew Strachan and Jenny Waldman for this public debate in Buchanan Theatre. The trio will each speak for five minutes before the discussion is opened to the floor. If you wish to book a place at this evening debate, and participate as a speaker or member of the audience, on Tuesday (19 June) from 7.30pm-9pm. • IWM Films of The Home Front. You are invited to view silent films of contemporary WWI as footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum will be screened. The films will be introduced by Matthew Lee and will include a live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne, a ‘silent film musician’ who has performed at film festivals all over the world. There are less than 100 tickets left for the screening on 21 June. Tickets are £5 and available from the Byre Theatre box office: www.byretheatre.com/events/. • Public Talk: Women at War. ‘Women at War’ is a talk by Professor Susan Grayzel about Gender, Place and Experience in First World War Britain. Held on the morning of Saturday 23 June at the Buchanan Theatre, from 10am to 11.15am, organisers are hoping it will be a wellattended event. • Records of World War One – Show and Tell event. Go along to the Special Collections Napier Reading Room at Richardson Research Library and see some of the surviving documents, books and records from WWI. Turn the pages and get close up with letters sent home from the front, diaries which tell the story of life in Fife during the war, photographs of soldiers and women, and explore the important role played by the University in support of the war effort. This is suitable for families and is a drop-in event on Saturday 23 June from 11.30am to 1pm.

The sacrifices and efforts made by those who stayed at home will be celebrated during the three-day academic conference at the university...