Stories using. D.m.s. To. This 1 o'clock I'm Alex play more place are investigating a stabbing in Leicester last night a man was robbed at knife point on health streets in the city center just before 7 o'clock crews attended the same dealing with a stab wound to the leg of the man whose bag was stolen in the incidents Hill Street was closed for a short time while investigations took place but is now reopened Police say there's no suspects at this stage also as often in the international development secretaries warning q.k. Charities they could lose their government funding if they fail to show moral leadership and follows reports that some form Oxfam workers use prostitutes in Haiti 7 years ago they messed around certain he set up the counseling service Child Line thinks a crisis will might people worry about giving money to charity I think there's already a certain amount of trepidation about giving money to charities that work overseas because I think we all worry a bit about whether the money is actually reaching the people who need it most because there are so many into major is a now to hear that there's abuse this kind further shakes confidence which is very very sad the prime minister and so the members of her cabinet are set out their policy on leaving the European Union in a series of speeches in the coming weeks Downing Street says they will describe the kind of relationship they want the u.k. To have in areas such as security that the evolution of powers and trade. A senior fire officers warn that paraffin based skin creams can contribute to fires Christabel of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service says the creams is safe as treatments for eczema and other conditions but can become flammable when they soak into fabrics or clothing can be involved in fire and fire does advocate so they scream to used throughout the u.k. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people we're not sure how many find us markets but it could be into the hundreds of birds counts across less the less the share Rowland's hopes to encourage farmers to take more care about the species on their lands farmers and landowners will be taking part in the 5th game and Wildlife Conservation trusts big farm land bird counts now be spotting and counting birds that lands on their land today Jamie Guinea is one of the game is from The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust he told b.b.c. Radio Leicester how it's important to look at past counts and continue to do them we are seeing the the top far you've have been the same muchly nearly for the for the 5 years so it's been startling field chaffinch would be gin but what we want is the farmers to have their own record so that when they've got trees sparrows and you know how much they can see with a good moral act we can have some citizen science on farm that helps farmers tweak their management for the birds they've got to be we see ready less a sport now and at the Winter Olympics in Pyongyang Chang Gondry Musgrave finished 7th in the men's 30 kilometers long record the best ever finish in the event by a British athlete Simon hex that Kerger who fell at the start one Gulf and away they also took silver and bronze Britain's Amy Fuller is also through to the final of the women snowboard slopestyle and look at the weather for Leicestershire ambulance and spouse who are currently seem remain for most of the day somewhere through showers are expected later though and it will be cold and breezy maximum temperatures of around 6 degrees Celsius some clear spells overnight but they'll still be a risk of a few snow showers at times especially before midnight tonight a widespread Frost is also expected minimum temperatures of minus 2 degree Celsius . Thanks so much indeed Alex enjoy the rest of. Our start on a 14 at Swinford East Barnes of those been an accident just to name one. Junctions . To deal with thoughts. Towards a care elsewhere. About a 6 or 7 North Park and. Looking busy London heads up from Victoria Park. Looking busy. Through West cuts the harbor road the 6 eastbound through. Main Street and. Traffic on a 6 foot 6 button street from the station and torch street beginning to ease now. From Barton Street. Center and toward Springfield Street looking every now and Springfield Street also busy both ways are North Hampton Roads the Kettering road going to bite and. Belton road to Bridge Street and East Midlands Trains at Leicester to Darby Norton replaced by buses today because of engineering works. To travel more in 30 minutes. B.c. Radio. Talking history stories coming up including the curious. As well. Throughout. Because show and the riddle Yes good afternoon to you Dave thanks again to everyone down there the lengthens and to garden center for Down to Earth this week which we enjoyed very much in the next week's down to something a little bit different we will be having a more in-depth look at what you can and should perhaps be doing in your garden in February Derek Cox Josie Hutchinson and Mark salty will be chatting various things through with me for next week's program anyway back to history features and it's Last year landmarks time now kicking off the program as we often do regular listeners know how this works I come up with a significant local landmark historical date and Steve Bruce does all the hard work and example story to match it well this week we are going back to February 18th 88 and the birth of someone who was probably the city and. And he's most prolific songwriter ever and who virtually became the Simon coul of his day in terms of music and artist promotion so it was this giant of the early with Trent early 20th century music industry his Steve. This week Dave we have something unusual as far as Lester is concerned if I was to ask you who was the most famous popular music composer in the city in the 20th century who might you say oh that's a tricky one because I think the sort of sixty's and seventy's I'd probably go back to when you know there was the the big Lester music scene that we've talked about on the program before involving you know some of the some of the groups like family and then of course later on Shorty want to be in an angle but there's kind of people I'm thinking of but I don't suppose they are the right answers No they're not going back to the early part of the 20th century Dave when a man called Lawrence Wright established his own music publishing company and also wrote a popular song after popular song his catalog all together stretched to about 7 or 800 songs by the time of his death very prolific composer genuinely I hadn't heard him how well known easy now well known were his songs he songs were very well known at the time and he still known today because although as with many of these smaller companies that we've talked about and other subjects before they do become amalgamated and subsumed by bigger corporations very often they continue to trade with the same name on the Lawrence Wright publishing company is still trading on in the music publishing world and he was born in February 1908 right here in Leicester just putting his music aside for one minute what. What we know about Lawrence Lawrence the man we know quite a lot about him he was born in upper Conduit Street in Leicester and his father had a shop there so in sheet music and musical instruments so he came of a musical family by the age of 10 his father had taught him to play a number of musical instruments including banjo mandolin violin and piano and at a very early age having helped his father on his music stall at Leicester market Lawrence set up his own store all when he was 16 and this was very successful it was followed very quickly by him renting a shop at the other end of Conduit Street and that was the birth of the right music company after skin to say not the only famous son of Lester to maybe start life less to market then think thinking football yes indeed now Lawrence Wright went on to have a number of hits when I say hits of course that it wasn't judged in those days by sale of records more by sale of the sheet music and that's what he became very good at leading up to and during the 1st World War lots of patriotic songs and the result was that he was able to move down to London and get offices in Denmark Street which became the the Tin Pan Alley of England and his publishing business and his songwriting business really went from strength to strength he made contacts in America as a result of which a number of American songs became well known in this country through the Lawrence Wright publishing company songs like stardust lazy bones Ain't Misbehavin Carolina Moon all published by Lawrence Wright in this country as well as his own material as I said earlier he was producing absolutely masses of are there any of his songs . He himself wrote that would be recognizable or sung today or even recorded there's one in particular that has stood the test of time and it's been recorded by many famous singers including being cross be Sinatra Marie Osmond Judy Garland and I think you might have found one by Carnie Francis and it's called among my souvenirs but strangely when when when looking at it Lawrence doesn't get any as far as I can see he doesn't get any credit on the titles at all no he doesn't or at least his real name doesn't most of his music writing he did under the pen name of Horatio Nichols and I guess that was because he didn't want an overload of Lawrence Wright on the record labels the Lawrence Wright publishing company and music by Lawrence Wright perhaps was a little bit of overkill because one of the reasons that Wright was so popular was he he was a very good entrepreneur and a shameless self publicist I'll give you a couple of examples of ways that he promote it he's songs he wrote one called for me in a plane or took a lot of thought about the rhyme on that one yes yes and as a result of that he flew the entire Jack Hilton orchestra who had made a recording of the song around the Blackpool Tower dropping copies of the sheet music as they did and another song he wrote was called so Harra and for this he had photographs taken riding around Piccadilly Circus on a camel so he knew how to publicize his work Dave he was the son and Khalil of the day by the sound of it I think you was Yes and obviously a very good businessman because unlike many he actually made a substantial amount of money in his later years for 32 consecutive years between 192419565 this time he'd moved up to live in Blackpool he. Emoted an annual show on the north pier Blackpool called on with the show. And in $962.00 he was awarded one of the Novello the annual Novello awards for his contribution to the music industry do we mark is being in any way in Leicester if he was that famous and the he came in we don't make much of him or do we I don't think we do know there was a blue plaque commemorating his birth place the end of the top end of Conduit Street I have to confess I haven't looked recently so I don't know whether or that he's still there but other than that no I think he's largely gone and forgotten from from Leicester and yet this most prolific writer whose name is still going in the music industry began his life and his business right here in Leicester. Valleys quite a story it is near Lawrence Wright earned everything you did in the early part of the 20th century and now here I need a bit of help as I often ask on this program things that Stephen I don't know Steve wasn't sure whether that blue plaque to Lawrence Wright is still around in Conduit Street just wondering if anybody can help out and anybody knows if they've seen it or if they know it's still there if you could kind of confirm or otherwise that particular statement I'd be very very pleased to hear from you know the way to get in touch with the program as always 011-625-1104 extension 9 text 81 triple 3 not getting the word lest at the beginning or you can tweet b.b.c. Lester or at Dave a radio my Twitter email me Dave Andrews at b.b.c. Dot co dot u.k. They want know whether the blue plaque to Lawrence Wright still exists in Conduit Street and really really would love to hear from you to find out for sure we're going to hear a bit of actually Lawrence. Voice. I thought also it would be quite fun to play one of those songs that he wrote which I think people. Have found this one by. Thanks was. Among my 70 years which was written by Lawrence Wright. Had a text in the Lawrence plaque was about on one of the. On Conduit Street says. Somebody but it's an anonymous one I'm going to thank you so much for that if anyone can corroborate that or I do anything to our story of Lawrence Wright that would be really really good to hear from you. Is the way it was on the Julie Miller apparently but is it still there that was the question the blue plaque to Lawrence right now promised you a bit of last rites of I found this lovely little recording both state I myself are saying how he's a bit of a bit of a publicist and bit of a Simon Callow of his days day being back in the early part of the 20th century. And he made this little I suppose a promotion about himself and one of his songs have a listen to this and love the accent I'm like to think that is talking to. That. In the middle of I don't know what I was in the ballroom last night and I noticed a side young lady sitting in the corner watching her partner dance with somebody else he consoled her by saying Don't want to darling I'm saving the Last Waltz for you now I'll be up a bit later I must finish a song about an atheist come to any one just now but it was you hearing all that did was say to her it. I tell you again I think I'm going to come I mean you can I said I want to new song I want to not revolve funny thing I'm saving the last will call you branded a new one for making it. Clear that any time. Yet defeat was moonlight not leave. Los the United to night. And. As another song by Lester's Lawrence Wright I said to tell you about her axis of a class accent wasn't really anybody of a generation or remembers or maybe as a repeat of round the whole I think it was a character that called dame Celia mouse and she did sound a little bit a little bit like that it has to be said but a lovely song they will use 8 we have Lawrence Wright Lester's very young Simon Cowan prolific songwriter. Now the cooperation about the blue plaque at the moment of being on the old jolly Miller pub on Conduit Street it is 2024 or so minutes past 1 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon talking history b.b.c. Radio Leicester. Right becoming rather more serious now a couple of Sundays ago the horrors of the Holocaust were commemorated in Leicester with a special Holocaust Memorial Day event arranged by the Stanley Burton center for Holocaust and genocide studies at Leicester University it was a remarkable a very moving event in all sorts of ways not least the talks given by 36 form students who'd been to Auschwitz Recently I was really impressed listening to them and I was so impressed that I had a chat with them afterwards about the impact that visit had made on them Lizzie cross and Henry Baker 2 English martyrs Catholic school and Jess myth to be Beecham colleagues when I asked them or 1st about whether. What they've done and study before the thing could ever really prepare them for what I actually saw there's no way you can actually prepare for what you see in those camps through g.c.s.e. Level of way through my history learning we've been taught to kind of recite facts and figures of the people that died during the Holocaust and really we've become quite desensitized because all we were seeing were figures on a page rather than individuals whose lives have been affected so we went to this particular Auschwitz Birkenau just the vastness of the place how many people with that and also in Auschwitz one where we saw just a fraction of the people just the picture of them and the touch of that number on their arm that was just it was a horrible experience they were in. This myself and innocent and even days after kind of hadn't fully thought through what we did experience I think the experience where it was just the silence that laid across the camps the pictures on the wall. There all the the evidence of people have been there and just you could feel with what had happened there and experiencing it so I think even afterwards we struggled to comprehend what happened and I can only really echo what they're saying that you can prepare to go to the actual camps and I think that one thing we really want prepared for was going to the town of him just before but his it was that you really saw the like physical and the lasting impact of the Holocaust because that town is just like closed down basically since the Holocaust not 17 years ago and I think just knowing that there was a town so close to somewhere something so horrific happened that it really puts it in context it just sort of connects it to real well. The other thing I was wondering was that you've all spoken about how important is how amazing you think it is that people should go and visit a place like this for themselves but I just want to personally the impact on. You know it's is very hard to put into words how you feel about the his While it is a very harrowing experience to go through to visit it is worthwhile and it does give you more of an understanding but you're very aware that your understanding has nothing in comparison to what actually went on is very very hard to ever understand I think for me it has shaped my studies because now I'm going to archaeology and seeing the physical remains of the site and the material like the hair the clothes the shoes the gases the hair brushes it really showed me the importance of material as a way of remembering the past and we're talking about hokus and I is with that material which you simply cannot deny is physical evidence of what went on and her mind of the wrongdoing that's happened going back to the Holocaust and I think for me when I was thinking my studying or university into me to kind of benefit myself I was like researching legal cases I could going to discuss my personal statement and it came to the point where I thought I connect my experience in house arrest for the Holocaust and occasional trust and my kind of vision for law and this is when I came across the case of David Greene and to me I still can't comprehend how someone can deny that and thing for me is impacted in a way that I like in terms of the future I think I want to be able to inform my peers inform anyone else around me share my experience of the Holocaust in my experience of going to Auschwitz and kind of sharing what I felt with the special 11 investors I mentioned earlier is the idea that quality throughout and I think throw my experiences with the Holocaust an occasional trust. I've been able to understand where you know the places they don't kind of have the understanding of quality and from one human to another and you know as a sense those kind of made me war aware of political tensions in the world in what goes on and I think just overall I'd like to say that I think I've been kind of more a better person well maybe understand more about equality and life in general will think the initial possible impact of Congress and I was scared this thing could have happened you know that's possible to think that it could happen again we walk into a gas chamber and I was so moved you know I was moved to tears really but in the long term impact it took quite a while Staton like a missionary or do we want to speak but my experience I was frightened to confront what I see but long term I've been able to process a I've had this year to think about my experience and I thought it's now more sponsibility it's passed on so of really want him to educating the people we've been given the opportunity with in our schools and it's really amazing to see the white community today a whole course of us today speaking about these events and pledging to never for us and that happened again. Under what you thought I thought some really insightful immature thoughts from 6 former Henry Bayliss across and just Smith about the preparation and received from the Holocaust Educational Trust and their incredibly moving visit to Auschwitz b.b.c. Radio. Look at that it is exactly. What. Problems continue on a 14 it's when Ferd said it's closed East by McEwen traffic he says he is also d.b. Are not oil spill heat as well as between the m one a. One for well for depression 5 the whole circle diversion samples from the top and change once the m one to junction 20 and then a 43 or 4 to the well for junction you 6 London road so that still seeing heavy traffic between Macon might annoy Victoria Park also looking fairly busy as well on West from melted and towards the left but a road junction. By traffic also seeing delays through ascots busy as usual on a 6 harbor road through but cab or things seem to have sorted themselves right now . In St serpentine are shared streets still busy and shared street busy both ways between parks and streets and Saxby toward a Market Harborough North Hampton Road heading into town from leisure center to Springfield Street as a visit but as music with old ways reported to me and Springfield Street is busy both ways between North Hampton Roads and the Kettering road roundabout and ever delays on Darby board and. Sort of themselves I don't mind if you heading for train City trains at Leicester to Darby and not in replaced by buses because of engineering works. To travel more and half an hour. That morning my honesty bursts into tears when I think that it's the most wonderful thing that's a music. Radio. Yalla their day with you for another half an hour with a bit of talking history just looking out the window here in the square and the weather who has not turned orrible suddenly. Something which looks remarkably like sleet to me all possibly even the towards snow or nice day cold and miserable but they will stay tuned to b.b.c. Radio less to do in the afternoon when I finish it took a look at snag will be with you he's the word in the studio next door and himself ready for the program at with you between 2 o'clock and 6 o'clock with some of the best bits of b.b.c. Radio Leicester broadcasting from the week. It was close and we can work it out if you're listening to the program last week he was slightly later than normal at 4 o'clock the comedian antique and sneaking was on and we heard hey is a very very poignant song about Alice Hawkins as they the suffragette. Anthony's doing all sorts of things in the comedy festival he is appearing pretty well every day at the Guild Hall that spits way each in body was last week it started running through the fabric the $26.00 with his 1000 years show a 20 minute history show featuring some of Lester's famous including suffragette Alice Hawkins and indeed Lady Jane Grey that some of the Guild Hall and it takes place pretty much all me. Every hour from midday 121234 but also deceive naming the 1000 years our show is our as in h o u r for an hour 60 minutes in other words that we can house and eat is at 7 o'clock that's tonight or Wednesday 21st February at 9 o'clock and these are the 1000 years show last thing an hour with Anthony King weeks to now so if you fancy going along and sneak is a comedian who really has made a point of bringing humor to history and also writing some pretty good songs to go with it as well now talking writing songs we chose a way Steve Bruce was telling us earlier on about Lawrence Wright who had perhaps the reputation of being one of the most prolific songwriters. In Lester's history not a lot of people heard of him but some of the songs like among my souvenirs the one I played I think probably will be well known some to people of a certain generation some others were mentioned as well and had a call from Shirley and Shirley actually joins me now Shelley hello hello how you signed I did you had a few memories provoked by that talk about songwriter Lawrence Wright and I've been through a member of that that he have a shop. Who ever took over his business on the little board to St They used to run by the side of the railway line opposite the station before it was demolished and I think it was on the left side and I used to sell she music then it had a mommy Yeah that would fit in with what Steve was saying is that's how he how he started off he sounds I became quite big towards the end of his life as a as a sort of Simon Cowley of his era that you know promoting music and writing music and writing songs I think it was there was one song that particularly sparked something you know memory lane the one that you mentioned is the one that you play and the last from a player who put on shows in 3rd. Really Shola Yeah. Every of the year we used to do an old time musical when they were fashionable Yeah that was one of the songs that we sang in one of the b. Music you know I never I've never heard of that song I must admit you're not one among the other member going around the stadium group I was real on him if he ever played I mean do you know how it goes. Jane you're not playing. On Carmen anymore and that's just not you remembered a bit of it was was brilliant was perfect I did I did sort of mention to save that I thought it wasn't a terribly adventurous rhyme enjoin in a plane it's a good job she wasn't called something else that rhyme but you know it yeah. And funnily enough my brother in law who is proud to a lot older than me he came to watch and he remembered right back in the 20s when that was so function above I mean totally enjoyed joined in the song well thanks for that memory it's lovely to hear from you yet have you have yourself a nice afternoon because he's doing something horrible outside of the snow isn't it isn't it very unpleasant keep warm and stay tuned. By Thank you. I'm enjoying a plane you say and still it was. Right we saw Monday absolutely confirmed about the blue plaque in Conduit Street to Lawrence Wright if anyone else has got any news on that we did get as far as being on the wall of the old jolly Miller pub in Conduit Street but the tech said was and I'm not sure whether that means you know the park is still some way to be seen but be very interesting if someone can you know confirm that or not right it is 20 minutes before 2 o'clock. Dave and G.'s. B.b.c. Radio Leicester. Well in a week where we've been considering the lives of all sorts of. Courageous and mold breaking women we're going to continue the story of someone who very much fits into that category Charlotte whale spent 17 years of her life sailing the high seas between Britain and Australia were also very extraordinary You might think but when you consider that this was in the middle of the 19th century when the voyage in the old sailing ships took forever it does become a lot more remarkable now Shala story was discovered by talking history listener Ian Fraser when doing research into his own family some of them South Australia at that time when it was the particular drive to populate Australia with people that weren't complex have been there before anyway Charlotte's name kept cropping up in the shipping records it really intrigued me and who came into radio listed to tell me about it now last week we heard from Ian and this was the 1st part of Charlotte story when we introduced the woman and she trained as a matron to accompany the ship's going as a step between Britain and Australia Well this week we hear again from a new concentrates on the conditions that Charlotte would have had to have lived with on the ships and on those voyages beginning with how long it would have taken back then. In the 1840s you would be perhaps over 100 days in the 1950 s. About 90 days that was pretty good you're objective on a sailing ship if you have the right sort of vessel was to make 200 to 250 miles a day now that's going from that means you're travelling at 10 to 12 not your ordinary family cruising yacht modern construction would not be able to do those sorts of just some of these boats were were moving if the conditions were right or you're much hit bad weather. These were nonstop trips you fill. Up with your vittles in the English pole dish with Liverpool play math London perhaps Southampton but basically those ports. And water you filled it with bottles of water and that was it you went for it as a one Voyager there was no stopping anyone. The food on board most of the ships they were actually cooking food they would they would have stoves sometimes mounted on the on the weather deck. In the small cabin but when you've got several 100 people to feed just keeping the food supply guy must've been a very difficult thing on ships like the Ticonderoga which my family went out there 795 passengers and for 48 crew and they're fed a hot meal every day and they had to sit down for it this is quite. An exercise. Chips Well last May it be surprisingly in the investigation that I've done there's one particular ship which was lost which took people from Rutland and on that was the ship cutter rocky which unfortunately hit what is called King Island if you look at the map of Australia off the bottom you have Tasmania and in the Bass Strait in between somebody left a big pile of rock there which is called King Island which is uninhabited and that went on to the ropes and out of 340 odd people on board only one passenger survived and 8 crew and they lived on that island which is uninhabited 5 weeks until they were rescued by some seal hunters is an awful story those people came from his book and they were all from the same family. The most vulnerable of course were the young children and indeed some of the ladies who boarded the ships were expecting much expectant mothers and if they gave birth on the route then there was no milk there was no cows milk or goats milk on board mothers had to nurture their own children and if they were the victims of seasickness motion sickness then I'm afraid that the fatalities in Korea and of course you had all the usual childhood illnesses you had measles scarlet fever there would be dysentery there would be diarrhea any number of illnesses it's just it's quite unpleasant really and. Ships like the Ticonderoga which are 2 decks instead of one where the ventilation was very very poor personal hygiene was unfortunately lacking and typhus broke out the typhus feeds on spread by body lice and $170.00 casualties from. The area as part 2 with amazing amazing and curious tale of the Charlotte whale and my thanks to him Fraser former county forest more next week Part one is still available if you want to go to b.b.c. Doco dot u.k. Slash radio Lester and go to listen again I played part one last week late on Sunday off the Alice Hawkins statue unveiling more about suffragettes and Alice Hawkins in just a moment. C.b.c. Radio listeners. Text Tony saying Dave is just funny manger. I mean in a plane in it seems that. Lucky you is all I can say. Yes that means must mean he's under it and 2 is a bit mean he's actually only 72 it was lovely hearing from show you just now dissing a little bit of me and joining a plane but we should get back in the dates version singing in its entirety written by Lawrence Wright the man we were hearing about in the beginning of the program now there were 2 huge stories in the long history of the fight for equal rights for women this week on Sunday of course Last Sunday there was a terrific event in Leicester in the New Market Square when that marvelous statue to us to suffer galleys Hawkins was unveiled in front of a huge crowd not to mention the great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and the great son a great grandson of Alice and if you're listening to me last Sunday afternoon you'll have heard the whole story in fact if you listen to ed. When he takes over 2 o'clock doing his program this afternoon he'll have much more on the suffragette story in the Alice Hawkins statue story as well. The other piece of news of course was on Tuesday it was the centenary of the passing of the representation of the People Act which gave the vote to all men over $21.00 but more significantly and for the 1st time to women albeit only those over 30 well pretty Blair went along to the weeks to the Records Office to learn a bit more about those less the suffragettes from just Jenkins. Ethan's school kids let me tell you that this is the Frisbee going now isn't there you know incident they were just some of the hundreds of women who fought for the cool and times were becoming more explosive in the fight to get the vote just Jenkins is from the left unless it's a record of faith the big protest unless it was in September 1909 when sin Churchill was coming to. Speaking Lester he was president of the border trade there's a letter in existence for him saying out I'm happy about all the arrangements left I'm just a bit worried about the women it was a ticket only meeting at the Palace Theatre in Belgrade gate but of course the odd thing is to remember there are a lot of men who were campaigning for women to have the vote as well and they managed to get tickets and they knew that soon as anyone heckled within a meeting about women's suffrage they were chucked out so one of the protesters in the Palace Hotel padlocked himself to the chair was a big embarrassing scuffle that brought the whole meeting to cessation and he was manhandled at the meeting. Meanwhile the women were to. Protest they March to the Palace Theater to demand admission both Alice Hawkins and her husband Elford were arrested that night along with others 930 things were deteriorating the government actually formed a conciliation Committee saying that we will form some form of limited franchise for women and was this was on the women troops and eventually the government turn around and said Oh actually I think we're just going to get votes to men we're going to have manhood suffrage 1st and we might get to water it to include women because women felt utterly betrayed that betrayal led to more acts of violence across Leicestershire if the 1st fire by arsonists occurs in La in October 1900 House that's empty they always attacked empty houses because they didn't want life to be wrist in a way the next serious fire is in Stoughton Grange in May 1014 another fire is never halt in June but the serious father did a lot of damage actually happened on the 12th of July 914 and that's when the Downs Station of blade b. Railway station was a wooden buildings was burnt completely $500.00 pounds worse a damage done that with a lot of money and. Yes it was quite significant they also top man in another way they desecrate the Gulf lets a golf club that's right yes that was in February 913 and somebody had carved onto the green no votes new golf suffragettes were brave and prepared to fight for what they wanted but it was a price a heavy price for many according to Henry never and a list of base journalists the danger now is that the younger generation of women will forget the heroic devotion of the women who fought to win political freedom for them to suffer what the militant suffragists than suffered the physical suffering inflicted by the police and liberal stewards at public meetings by the crowds in the streets in the war dresses in prison and by the torment of a hunger strike and by the abomination of forcible feeding. It was pretty Blair and she was talking earlier on to just Jenkins at the records office in week still more of which in just a moment some very important more as well I've got to say and the beginning of that you heard a little bit of the March for women so I think Dame Ethel Smythe's piece of music which became the anthem really of the suffragettes I think we established last week when I was on the air that that was it that used as the theme tune to a b.b.c. Series on cold shoulder to shoulder about the suffragettes which was I think shown 1st in the 1970s. To King history d.c. Radio and. Yet talking history and indeed talk about the Record Office which we were just now news of an incredibly well deserved honor this week for that particular place with so many of us you know use that anyone who's got an interest in history I'm sure will have visited the Record Office at one time or another I've been doing research there it's the Record office of course for less the less she and Rutland it's in week Stephen and last week it received an accolade which puts it in the top 4 percent of all such research institutions in the u.k. Yes the top 4 percent with day. To day middle smaller than the brain Dr Fathi chance and from the National Archives presented the award and unveiled a special plaque at a ceremony which also involved tea and cake in fact I have tweeted a picture of the cake which is in the form of the plaque which is on the wall at the racoons office anyway after was standing next that particular plaque and before I got my teeth into the cake I chatted to Valerie and also Simi archivist Jenny Moran and Robin Jenkins It is a very nice occasion for us a very pleasing one because we not only see all our friends together I mean friends are that the broadest possible term but our peers as well and we're celebrating an awful lot of hard work so it means a great deal to the staff of the record office to have that celebration a commemoration of of the. What we've achieved really and I don't to sound as if I'm you know blowing out a trumpet too much but it has taken off to work it isn't an easy thing by any means and it's set us up very nicely for the years to come but with Martin as you would expect a record office a few little reenactments much dressing up General props tell us about that in just a moment but I need to speak to the lady who unveiled the plaque and indeed can explain what the critics Haitian really means for something like the record of his and you know what it really is I'm Valerie Johnson I'm director of research and collections at the National Archives so archives accreditation is a real benchmark of quality and it's a national standard it really shows the Record Office which holds all the records for all the communities out there for you listeners all those records that we need to keep for the future so it's saying that those records in this particular record office are being kept a really high quality standard that the access is great the staff are good and the all the qualities and standards by which they keep documents of being maintained and I was surprised that you mentioned that it's actually quite a small number of organizations that achieve this particular accolade Yeah that's right so there are about 2 and a half 1000 archive services in the u.k. So that means that only 104 accredited So if you list if your listeners have got faster math than mine they will be able to work I think it's 4.1.16 if you were leaving accurate of archive services who have achieved that standard so it is a really genuinely small number of archive services who are who have a chief that back presentation status so it's a really significant achievement really significant how we see judge that they've reached this standard and what made the record office here in weeks and stand out what you have to do to apply is to fill in a form being an archive lots of documents involved and then what happens is there is an accreditation panel with representatives from across the u.k. From all the 4 nations and they come into a visit to the archive so they can check out the form and have a look. Make sure everything's being kept there no leaks in the strong all those kind of things and then they go away there's a panel meeting and the panel looks at the evidence and makes a decision as to whether a credit to a credit or not stop said the answer was yes in this particular case search is great Such is why I'm here today so what really made. Stand out particularly was it such as you already mentioned one of the things that is really known for its incredibly strong outreach to the way they really involve people right across the communities unless they're really drawing everybody in making records relevant to everybody we're bringing them alive so that people can can really be aware of the kind of stories and histories that you that anyone can come into the record office and explore and that's a real achievement we on b.b.c. Radio Leicester witness some of these some of these events and I've described them in the past and of course use the Record Office itself for our own benefit and our own research but that journey I mean I would use the assassination of France Ferdinand here. Not actually but you know your reenactment or not and also the reenactment of the 1st World War here today you actually entertained us with 3 little scenes as well just demonstrating the breadth I think is that of the records that you have yes that's right all regime is always to make them accessible to people and one of the ways we do that is by using the words of people and actually speaking them acting them out rather than people just coming in and reading them what do we witness today well the 1st thing we noticed was the representation of the people at commemorations a speech by suffragette nearly tailor who is very vehement that she wasn't aggressive or violent towards a police officer and then she was sadly arrested by our own police officer then it was there's a lovely one or awaiting scene which dates back to record like $1576.00 yes that's right the 5th of February 15th 76 so it's the actual anniversary of that wedding where a deaf and dumb man has to use sign language to take part in the ceremony and the interesting thing is. Signs of all been approved in advance so he can participate fully So it's something that we have legislation about today but even then people were very keen that he had a valid and legally binding marriage to them the lady finally off it was a celebration going back to $1820.00 was and yes that's right this comes from the largest single collection the noble family of Exton park in that land and they celebrated the Prince of Wales birthday in about 820 with the festival I don't spiced of all but great beer in jeans so we handed out some little bits of bread and cheese with the way that as a tiny amount of beer Yes I'm a symbol for which I joyfully very much indeed finally Robyn it's a lovely honor and a very well deserved accolade will it practically make a difference to the Record office I certainly will it may just think a great deal about the way we operate in the way we should operate and really we tightened up some of our procedures we rewrote things policies and thinking about the way you work is a very good thing it also I suspect in the future will open up sources of funding and things like that because any any group giving money away will say well are you are credited have you reach that standard and we can now say yes we have brilliant Well many congratulations to all of you the lovely cake and it looks very much like the park has just been just begun by a little yes machine so it's all going to some cake Thank you excellent thank you. Yeah it was really really good a many congratulations to the Record office that we extend to Robyn and Jenny and and the others it's a good really great on a put some in the top 4 percent as I said of such institutions very well deserved in a real accolade and a feather in the cap and once again they did us proud to not just those scenes that Jenny was describing they're very good at reading reenacting some of the scenes from the records they hold but also bringing round the little bits of cheese. And beer which went with the $820.00 celebration the Prince of Wales birthday and then of course the cake which looked exactly like the plaque leaves the top of the cake to exactly like the plaque and have tweeted a picture at Dave a radio or at b.b.c. Lest even have a look at the cake itself and I got a tweet back from the record officer saying Hope you had some it seemed to go very very quickly Yeah I did actually but it was extraordinary nice cake is one of those jam sponge with some of the icing on the top Well that is about all we got time for on talking history for today thank you very much indeed for your company as always thanks to had an extraordinary been answering the phones and thank you comments as usual next week we can have very interesting I think a very interesting discussion with some students and teachers about how history is taught in schools these days are things that children learn and maybe some of your memories as well of history lessons from school days at rest the afternoon we got at Stag of course coming up very very shortly I'll probably be humiliated with failing to sort his competition out his Oxford hat trick I'll go and have a go and in just a minute that's coming up between 2 and 6 then it's coming then it's dull season is grand talking to the rest of the day a lovely afternoon sunshine analysis note seems to have stopped at whether this family's gone. 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