1901-2000
The 1918 flu pandemic was a lethal outbreak of influenza which infected 500 million people around the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population) making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It killed the young and not the old, and was spread around the world by troops returning home after the First World War.
Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell, discover how to put out one of the fire bombs that were dropped in their tens of thousands on Epsom during the war. Try to play fag cards like wartime children, discover the size of the sweet ration, and master a paper puzzle to find the hidden pig! Write a postcard home after being evacuated.
Cost £5 per child. Contact David Brookes, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell.
Tel: 020 8394 1734
e-mail: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Surrey Local History Committee
A Committee of Surrey Archaeological Society Registered Charily 272098
Saturday 21 April 2018 9.30am to 4.00 pm
at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND
9.30 Registration
9.55 Chairman’s introductory remarks
10.00 Ros Black, local author and speaker . Duxhurst, Lady Henry Somerset’s farm colony for inebriate women
10.40 Coffee and tea
Talk by Graham Mackenzie, Chief Engineer of SS Shieldhall
Talk by R Cansdale, Basingstoke Canal Society
Talk by Michael Alliott, son of an Aviation Pioneer.
Conflict archaeology is a multi-disciplinary approach to sites of conflict. A panel of experts will discuss diverse field projects at this event.
Tickets £22-25 from: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-richer-dust-case-studies-from-c0nflict-arc...
A pdf of the programme is attached.
