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  • Location Concert Hall
  • Date Thrusday 27 March 2025
  • Timing 20h00
  • Language Dutch
  • Price - Non-member € 10
  • Price - Member € 5
  • Reservation Via de link bovenaan / onderaan deze pagina

Description

Tubby Clayton described Talbot House as 'A House of People'. This is also the starting point of this series of presentations about Talbot House during the First World War, the Interbellum and the Second World War. The various episodes are told based on the testimonies of the protagonists themselves, with special attention to new facts, stories and anecdotes. The presentations are richly illustrated with often never-before-seen images.

What to expect during the lecture 'Talbot House during the First World War'

  • the foundation, founders (Tubby Clayton and Neville Talbot) and naming;
  • the philosophy behind the House: place of physical, mental and spiritual peace; a selection from the entire range of activities (from debates, concerts and children's parties to baptisms, confirmations and conferences);
  • the 'Every Man's Club' principle put into practice, everyday life;
  • a 'House of People': staff (some striking figures), visitors (from gunner to general, from chaplain to archbishop, from poet, pilot and prince to nurse, VC and deserter; all kinds of nationalities and beliefs);
  • a chronicle with some special dates and notable events;
  • Talbot House in single figures;
  • expansion with two 'daughter houses': The Officers' Club (later Skindles) and Little Talbot House (Ypres);
  • some important documents (Visitors' Book, Communicants' Roll, noticeboard posts) and objects-with-a-story;

This lecture is one of a series of lectures that we are planning for the spring of 2025. The other lectures are as follows:

Jan Louagie has been secretary of the non-profit organization Talbot House for more than 40 years and has been passionate about the history of the Every Man's Club for just as long. His intensive research resulted in the following publications, on which the presentations are based:

  • The First Stop after Hell: Talbot House, Poperinge, Lannoo, 1998, 560pp (together with co-author Katrien Nolf)
  • A Touch of Paradise in Hell, Talbot House, Poperinge – Every-Man's Sanctuary from the Trenches, Helion & Co., Solihull, 2015, 388 pp.
  • Talbot House in the Second World War, Poperinge, 2022, 70pp.
  • Talbot House in the interwar period – The Pilgrim's Way, Poperinge, 2024, 95 pp.

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