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The University of Birmingham and the National Literacy Trust have launched a story writing competition for pupils aged between 9 to 14 years old, inviting them to write about fictional or real everyday heroes they know personally. The competition aims to raise awareness about the importance of literacy and inspire young people to use storytelling…
Birmingham’s annual Remembrance Sunday service will look very different this year, due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. While there will be no public event in the city centre, people looking to remember the fallen will be able to watch a live-streamed Service of Remembrance from Birmingham Cathedral (St Philip’s) on 8 November…
Recently, I spoke to a friend who works in diversity. She said that she’d only just realised for the first time that large numbers of Muslims had fought in the two world wars to support Britain. This is someone who spends her professional life thinking about integration and inclusivity, yet she said that it had…
Along with the famous red poppies sold and promoted by the Royal British Legion each year, many people also choose to wear white poppies to mark Remembrance Day. Some wear either a red or white poppy, while others wear both, but why do people wear white poppies and what do they represent?
Birmingham will fall silent on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as the city remembers the fallen on Sunday – 100 years after the First World War ended. A Day of National Remembrance Service will take place on Colmore Row, opposite St Philip’s Cathedral, on 11 November, attended by military…
It’s Poppy Day in Birmingham today, ahead of Remembrance Sunday on 11th November. Volunteers, members of the military forces and veterans were out in full force across the city, selling poppies and raising awareness about The Royal British Legion and their work.