Exhibition at The Ropewalk, North Linconshire, September 17 until November 2016

Springtime on the National Mall in Washington DC where crowds of people are out in the sunshine beneath the pink cherry and white pear blossoms. At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, known as ‘The Wall’, a steady stream of tourists, relatives, loved ones and the occasional veteran, his head bowed respectfully, file along the curve of […]

Here is the first of two posts on the Women Vietnam Veterans, to accompany the evolving exhibition Poppies: Women, War, Peace. They will merely scratch the surface of the bigger picture that was the Vietnam War. The second post will come to you from Washington DC where I shall meet some of these women. In […]

Concepcion Picciotto (known as Connie) maintained a protest for peace and against nuclear war in a plastic makeshift tent outside the White House in Washington DC. Her vigil, lasting 30 years until her death in January 2016, is considered to be the longest political protest in American history. She is believed to have been a […]

Christmas in Sierra Leone wih Gladys and Rebecca