WWII Home Front Recall
 A new project to commemorate the role of workers and trade unions on the Home Front during the second World War is to start next month. The project is being run by the National Pensioners’ Convention (NPC).with funding from the ‘Home Front Recall’ programme set up by the Big Lottery and Heritage Lottery Funds to support community groups and organisations to commemorate next year’s 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
The National Pensioners’ Convention is currently advertising for the post of Project Manager to manage the 15-month project which will culminate in an exhibition with the Imperial War Museum, during the week of the Trades Unions Congress in 2005. In addition to the exhibition the NDC is expecting to produce a wide range of research material including oral histories, photographs and interesting personal accounts of workers and trade unionists working on the home front during the war years. Material produced within the project will be stored in the TUC archive collections, housed at London Metropolitan University in Holloway, alongside the WEA’s own archive.
Anyone wishing to come forward with stories or information for the project, or wanting a copy of the job description for the Home Front Recall project manager can contact Neil Duncan-Jordan at the National Pensioners’ Convention on:
 0207-553-6510 or email:
 admin@natpencon.org.uk
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