Event | Heritage

Meeting an Urgent Need – The Deceased Brother’s Widow’s Marriage Act 1921

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Our monthly history talk this month welcomes Dr Linda Maynard who has explored and published a fascinating exploration of “Brothers in the Great War - Siblings, masculinity and emotions”.

Linda focuses on this unique aspect of the Great War.

During the First World War, the British government persistently rejected calls to legalise marriages between a man and the widow of his deceased brother. This talk reviews the debates surrounding calls to change the law which eventually came into force in 1921, laying to rest a curious anomaly that gained emotional and economic importance as a result of the seismic casualties of the war.

Linda Maynard History

Cost

£5 / Friends are free (membership info online)

[URL: https://heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/event/meeting-an-urgent-need-the-deceased-brothers-widows-marriage-act-1921/]

Date

Next on:

Single occurence

1.5 hours duration

Venue

2-3 Church Ln,
Hebden Bridge,
HX7 7PL

Venue access:

  • Dog friendly

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