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Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community and the Great War Saturday 16 September, 2pm - 3.30pm Stephen Bourne presents an illustrated talk about his book Black Poppies which has been published by The History Press. Entertaining and informative, Black Poppies explores the military and civilian wartime experiences of black Britons, from the trenches to the music halls. For Black Poppies Stephen received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum Award for Literature. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND Tickets are free but booking is essential. Please book a place online at www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents in person at Surrey History Centre or any Surrey Library or phone 01483 518737. Hot Off The Press: Digital Newspaper Archives and Local History Saturday 7 October, 10.45am - 3.30pm Surrey Local History Committee and Surrey Heritage present: 10.45 Registration and coffee 11.15-12.00 Dr Gerry Moss, Surrey Archaeological Society Local History from Digital Newspapers 12.00-12.30 Seth Cayley, Gale Cengage Learning The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspaper Collection: A New Digital Resource 12.30-1.00 Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre ‘A Copious Collection of Newspapers': John Nichols and his Collection of Newspapers, Pamphlets and News Sheets, 1760-1865 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.45 Dr John Price, Goldsmiths, University of London Stories of Splendid Heroism: researching gallantry using newspaper archives 2.45-3.15 Juliet Warren, Surrey History Centre Surrey in the Great War: Creating and using newspaper indexes for Home Front Research 3.15-3.30 Discussion, Tea and Close Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND £10 includes refreshments. Please make your own arrangements for lunch. Please book a place online at www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents, in person at Surrey History Centre or any Surrey Library or phone 01483 518737. Oral History Training Thursday 19 October, 10am - 4.30pm Join Rib Davis, oral historian with over 30 years experience, and trainer in oral history across the UK and abroad for this informative training course on oral history. 10.00-10.10 Welcome and introductions 10.10-11.30 What is oral history? What it is, where it comes from, why we do it, some of the reservations people have about it and some of the issues around it 11.30-11.45 Break 11.45-1.00 Preparing for the effective interview: all aspects of the interview process(i) 1.00-1.40 Lunch 1.40-2.15 Preparing for the effective interview (ii) 2.15-2.50 Practical work: interviewing 2.50-3.15 Use/demonstration of equipment 3.15-3.30 Break 3.30-4.30 After the interview: legal and ethical issues, summarising, transcription, and archiving. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND. £50 - tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day but attendees will need to make their own lunch arrangements. Please book a place online at www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents, in person at Surrey History Centre or any Surrey Library or phone 01483 518737. The Road to Passchendaele Saturday 11 November, 2pm - 3.30pmm The Surrey Heritage Annual Lecture with Richard van Emden. The Road to Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele. The viscous mud in which these men fought has come to symbolise the horror of the Great War. Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written nineteen books about it including The Trench, The Last Fighting Tommy and The Soldier’s War, (all top ten bestsellers), Boy Soldiers of the Great War, Prisoners of the Kaiser, and, most recently, The Somme. His books sales now exceed 650,000 copies. Richard has worked on more than twenty-five television programmes on the Great War, including Britain’s Last Tommies and the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, Britain’s Boy Soldiers, War Horse: the Real Story and Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs. Surrey History Centre, 130 Goldsworth Road, Woking, GU21 6ND £5 includes refreshments. Please book a place online at www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents, in person at Surrey History Centre or any Surrey Library or phone 01483 518737. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra