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Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures Paul Atterbury

Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures By Paul Atterbury

Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures by Paul Atterbury


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To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, the Antiques Roadshow team filmed a series of specials at the Somme, where the public brought in their family's war memorabilia and photographs.

Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures Summary

Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures by Paul Atterbury

To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, the Antiques Roadshow team filmed a series of specials at the Somme, where the public brought in their family's war memorabilia and photographs. These 'antiques' weren't financially valuable, or in some cases even very beautiful, but the stories that came attached to these momentoes were priceless. Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures takes 100 of the most fascinating and moving stories and shows how they fit in to the wider history that was occuring around them. From Rifleman Frank Edwards, who led the 'big push' in September 1915 kicking a football in front of the troops (and survived to tell the tale) to the formidable Catherine Murray Roy, one of the first 50 nurses to be sent to the front lines in France. The story behind each object paints an intimate portrait of a long-lost relative, and quotes from the modern-day participants in the roadshow provide a moving link between the families then and now. Fully illustrated, and featuring all the stories from the show, this is a truly unique way of telling the story of those ordinary lives that were, by the onset of war in 1914, thrown into the most extraordinary of circumstances.

About Paul Atterbury

Paul Atterbury is a long-standing expert (and firm viewer favourite) on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, specialising in the 19th and 20th century art and architecture. He has written widely on history, railways, arts and travel, as well as curating exhibitions for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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GOR006503754
9781849907262
1849907269
Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures by Paul Atterbury
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Ebury Publishing
2014-08-07
400
N/A
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