{"id":1592,"date":"2026-02-11T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:45:27","slug":"penistone-arts-week-ww1-talk-on-24-mar-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Penistone Arts Week &#8211; WW1 Talk on 24 Mar 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m working on a bit of research, having been invited to give a talk as part of the Penistone Arts Week.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5th-Y-and-L-York-457322.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5th-Y-and-L-York-457322.jpg 590w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5th-Y-and-L-York-457322-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Officers of 1\/5 Bn York and Lancaster Regiment, the local TA battalion for Penistone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/penistoneartsweek.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/penistoneartsweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/penistoneartsweek.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The town war memorial is located next to St John the Baptist Church and the plan is to look at some of the names on the memorial and talk about where they served, fought and died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/large_28106_context.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/large_28106_context.jpg 800w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/large_28106_context-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/large_28106_context-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many memorials right across the the British Isles the memorial has a full cross section of those that fought in the Great War.  There are Pre-war Regulars, Territorials, Kitchener Volunteers and also the Conscripted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The named individuals also have covered across the full spectrum of the battle theatres &#8211; indicating that this small Yorkshire town had its men spread across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So works are ongoing, the talk will also have a living history element to it as well, but it is now starting to come together.  Plenty to keep me busy with everything else that is going on at the moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I&#8217;m working on a bit of research, having been invited to give a talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,144,143],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-great-war","tag-history-talk","tag-yl-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}