World War 2 Themed Talks- with Highlights from The Museum and Archive Collections:
- 12.00PM: WW2 Militaria, Medals, Uniforms and Personalia: With highlights from the Borders Museums and Archives Collections of Armed Forces artefacts and military history archive material. Free entry, donations welcomed
- 1.00PM: Borders Creatives 1939-1945: Anne Redpath, Will Ogilvie, George Hope Tait and other local creative practitioners and designers, whose work is represented in the Borders Museums and Archives Collections. Free entry, donations welcomed
- 2.00PM: The Home Front: Domestic life, fashion, leisure and childhood during WW2. With highlights from the Borders Collections. Free entry, donations welcomed
- 3.00PM: Remembering V.E Day in the Borders 1945: On the 8th May 1945, at 3pm, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe. Discover what happened in the Borders on that day. Talk will feature a selection of V.E. Day artefacts and archives from the Collections, plus local people’s memories. Free entry, donations welcomed
- 4.00PM: Borderers’ Lives During WW2: Told through letters, journals and photographs. First-hand accounts of life, work and active service during WW2- including extracts from local people’s correspondence, records, diaries and personal stories. Free entry, donations welcomed
- 7.00PM: An Evening of War Poetry, to mark the 80th Anniversary of V.E. Day, 1945. War poems past and present- featuring the work of Wilfred Owen. Siegfried Sassoon, Keith Douglas, W.H. Ogilvie, George Hope Tait, Julian Colton and many more. Presented by Julian Colton. Pay to enter