Life Gallery, Level 1: Dorothy and Archibald

        

A tragic tale of World War One victims

Event Details
Date: , 2017
Time: to
Venue: M Shed, BS1 4RN
Price: Free
With: Rachel Simpson, Stuart Butler
Series: Bristol Radical History Festival at M Shed 2017
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Section: Events
Subjects: World War I
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A performative reading of the tragic tale of Private Archibald Knee and Dorothy Beard who died together in 1916: a mutual suicide of two victims of the First World War.

Stuart Butler and Rachel Simpson will give readings from Dorothy and Archibald, a folding publication, with illustrations, produced to commemorate two tragic deaths. Designed and illustrated by Katie Johnston, an RCA graduate from Nailsworth, near Stroud, this collaborative book features texts by Stuart and Alice Butler, on the mutual suicide of Private Archibald Knee and Dorothy Beard in 1916, at Iron Mills Pond, near Avening, near Stroud.

Copies of the limited edition publication will be available for purchase.

Suitable for adults and older children.

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