Exhibition explores ‘heritage of peace’

The Peace Museum in Bradford has launched an exhibition exploring the 'heritage of peace' following the first world war

The Peace Museum in Bradford has launched a lottery-funded exhibition exploring the ‘heritage of peace’ following the first world war.

‘A Flawed Peace?’, which opened on 1 November, was awarded £4,900 through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘First World War: then and now’ programme.

It features a 1919 copy of the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty signed after the war, which belonged to Bradford politician Meredith Farrah Titterington and has remained in the city since.

Charlotte Hall, curator at The Peace Museum, told the Friend: ‘We also have one of the maps included in the Treaty, which is of West Germany and shows what land they lost. We also have 1919 Peace Celebration items including a mug and medal.’

The exhibition also features newspapers of the time such as an edition of The Star bearing the headline ‘The War is Over’ and saying that ‘the armistice was signed at 5am today’.

There will also be fifteen free secondary and primary school workshops, engaging over 450 pupils.

Shannen Lang, learning and engagement officer at The Peace Museum, said: ‘The war may have ended on 11 November, but the peace process took much longer, and the world took even longer to recover.’

The exhibition runs until 28 June next year to mark 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

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