Alice Wheeldon's birthday marked by screening of new documentary

Cathy Gray

January 27, 2024

Story retold, News, Media coverage

Alice Wheeldon's birthday marked by screening of new documentary

Created by young filmmaker Elizabeth McGlynn, War on Lies: The Alice Wheeldon Campaign premiered at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery on 27 January 2024, 108 years after Alice’s birth.

Watch the film online.

Cathy Gray

June 14, 2022

CCRC application

Alice Wheeldon: Decision by Criminal Cases Review Commission

Cathy Gray

June 14, 2022

CCRC application

Alice Wheeldon: Decision by Criminal Cases Review Commission

Chloe Mason’s efforts to quash the unjust 1917 convictions of Derby woman Alice Wheeldon and her family through the UK legal system concluded in 2022 with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) deciding not to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.

Chloe Mason

April 21, 2022

Music, Derby, Story retold

Alice's story told through song

Chloe Mason

April 21, 2022

Music, Derby, Story retold

Derby folk trio Moirai have created a moving musical drama based on Alice Wheeldon’s story, available on CD.

Check their website for details..

Cathy Gray

December 13, 2021

Women, First World War

Alice Wheeldon and the First World War

Cathy Gray

December 13, 2021

Women, First World War

Alice Wheeldon appears as a key life in Women and War, a beautifully illustrated open-access e-book just released as part of a series funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the centenary of the First World War.

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