DHS AGM and First World War Conference, 11th Oct

‘The Cruellest and Most Terrible War that has ever scourged Mankind’ is the theme of the DHS Annual Conference, held after the AGM at the University of Exeter on Saturday 11th October 2014. The event is open to DHS members, their guests, and members of affiliate societies; the programme and booking details are now online.


 Devon History Society Annual General Meeting 2014
‘The Cruellest and Most Terrible War that has ever scourged Mankind’
Saturday 11 Oct 2014. Lecture Theatre C, Streatham Court, University of Exeter, EX4 4QJ.

An exhibition on First World War research undertaken by local history societies will be available for viewing from 9.30 a.m. The AGM is at 10.00, and the day's thematic events run from 11.15 to 17.00.

The event is open to DHS members (free) and member's guests and members of affiliated societies (for a nominal charge of £2.50). Tea/coffee and lunch can be booked - see booking slip for costs.

Programme

10.00 - AGM

11.15 - Introduction – Phil Planel, Devon History Society Chairman
11.20-12.15 - Bruce Coleman (President’s Address) The national and political scene leading up to World War I
12.15-13.00 - Lunch and view exhibition ‘Theatre of War’, Slide presentation about the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium, prepared by Mo Sandford of Otter Vale Association
13.00-13.55 - Jeremy Black – World War I as Military History reconsidered.
14.00-14.25 - Local research on men who served in the war, presented by:

• James Mussen, Blackawton
• Robert Sampson, Chagford
• John Eastley, Ipplepen
• Ann Bond, Kenton
• Peter Rennells, Widecombe on the Moor

14.25-14.55 - Tea and view exhibition
15.00–15.55 - Richard Batten – Devon’s Holiday Industry in WW1, 1914-1916
16.00-16.50 - Presentations – impact of First World War on Devon communities:

• On preparations for war in Wembury (David Pinder)
• ‘Battling Onwards’: The Brixham Fishing Fleet, 1914-1918 (Samantha Little)
• On the impact of war on Lustleigh and Dartmoor (Peter Mason)
• On the impact of war on Ottery St Mary (Jim Woolley)
• Changes to life in Dunsford after the war (Sandra Bond)
• 16.50-17.00 - Reflections and Future Directions for Research

Lecture Theatre C is Building No 31 off Rennes Drive on the campus map – see location map.

Free parking is available on Saturdays. The nearest car parks are on the Visitors’ car park by the INTO building (access via University entrance and Queen’s Drive) and car park D (access via Stocker Road entrance).

Click here for printable booking slip (PDF) - please return by 3rd October.