Today’s news from Dunkirk
– every day from 26th May to 4th June
Each year, every day from 26th May to 4th June The Dunkirk Project publishes this day’s news from Dunkirk 1940 live. Follow real people’s real stories day by day, with lots of new entries, updated features, and stories continuing beyond the evacuation. Just click on the date in the page menu top left of your screen.
And always available on the menu: features on heroic ships, artists’ views and visions of Dunkirk and some extraordinary true stories, an introduction and summary to fill you in on the background, and Thames to Dunkirk, the largest book in the British Library.
Stranger than Fiction – highlighting extraordinary true stories from Dunkirk from our contributors, including some surprising elements: twelve pairs of silk socks, a jam sandwich and a tattered postcard, and a treasured newspaper clipping showing one of the last soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk.
Follow Thames to Dunkirk page-by-page: by Liz Mathews, the largest book in the British Library draws together all the stories:
a vivid witness account from soldier poet BG Bonallack, a raw and powerful undercurrent from Virginia Woolf, a map of the Thames with the names of little ships that answered the call, and along the great strand of Dunkirk beaches, many of the 337,131 people who were rescued.
Thames to Dunkirk on film – an artist’s film takes a walk around the big book, in company with BG Bonallack and Virginia Woolf; with an article on the British Library’s blog.
And you can explore the making of the big book, in a feature about its inspiration and development from a dream to a continuing work in progress.
Creating Dunkirk – artists’ views and visions – a series of articles looking at other artworks inspired by Dunkirk begins with a feature on John Craske‘s astonishing embroidery The Evacuation of Dunkirk
… continues with a look at Richard Eurich‘s red-hot The Withdrawal from Dunkirk
And Charlie Bonallack’s Dunkirk Phossils brings another very contemporary vision of Dunkirk.
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