by Sean Morris, Commission member Over the past 12 months, commemorations have taken place to remember the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. These have included the 80th anniversary of D-day, remembering VE Day on 8th May and soon there will be commemorations for the formal end of the war […]
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02 Sep – Events across the Diocese commemorating Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings
By Tim DevereuxChair, Movement for the Abolition of Warwww.abolishwar.netThis year, as many before, there were events in Bradford and Keighley to commemorate the dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 6th August, 1945, and in Leeds three days later remembering the Nagasaki bombing, 9th August, 1945. From outrage at the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish […]