On Friday 25th October, MESH Theatre are staging a one-off performance of The Soldier by Rachel Wagstaff. This 'captivating' one act play is based on the life of Rupert Brooke…
Please click on the following link to read the Chairman's 2019 letter and details of how to subscribe to the WPA or renew your existing annual membership: Chairman's Letter 2019,…
During the recent battlefields tour The World's Worst Wound, the final tour in a series designed to commemorate the centenary of the First World War and the Armistice which ended it,…
A nationwide beach event organised by director Danny Boyle to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War will take place tomorrow, 11 November, Armistice Day. Danny…
Work on the First World War nurse Mary Borden by the WPA's founding President Professor Paul O'Prey, who edited a first published collection of Mary Borden's poems, published recently by…
The draft itinerary below has been produced by Eyewitness Tours Ltd for the third in their series of battlefield tours organised for the WPA to commemorate the centenary of the…
This new book by Owen biographer Dr Guy Cuthbertson uses letters, diaries and newspapers to build an hour-by-hour account of 11 November 1918, the day that brought the First World…
Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson's new biography of Robert Graves in the years 1895 - 1929, a period which included Graves joining the Army as an officer at the age of…
WPA members and friends can take advantage of this pre-publication SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE OFFER from publishers, Carcanet, which runs until 11 November 2018: Selected Poems Edmund Blunden, ed.…
Latest (19/09/2018): A video recording of this new composition by Roxanna Panufnik which used lines from Isaac Rosenberg's poem 'In the Underworld' and formed the opening performance of Last Night of the Proms 2018,…