A major art project is under way to commemorate Prestonians’ memories of the Second World War. The city’s Harris Museum is working with the Imperial War Museum (IWM) to commemorate the 80th ...

A SPECIAL exhibition has been created to celebrate the life and times of a First World War officer. Spence: The Art of War tells the remarkable story of Colonel Gilbert Ormerod Spence, Commander ...

After the end of the First World War thousands of Lancashire soldiers remained overseas until the following year. Lancashire Infantry Museum’s Roger Goodwin looks at the homecomings to Preston ...

Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin Part One — Evacuees at school in Preston and later at the Hitchin Girls Grammar School. Part one of an oral history interview with Mrs. Rebecca Cook ...

About 50 of Col Spence’s watercolours are on display at Preston Park Museum, near Eaglescliffe, Stockton, until October 30, highlighting the ‘human side of war’.Paintings of barren ...