Leicester, Leicestershire: Armistice Day

Available for over a year

Armistice Day 1918 was a joyful day and yet a very poignant one. Today we remember 11th November every year, yet there is no one alive to tell us first-hand the reaction of local people on the day war was finally over after four years. But BBC Radio Leicester’s Bridget Blair has met Ned Newitt, a local historian who set up the East Midlands Oral History Archive in the 1908s to capture people’s memories of the city. He managed to capture the initial euphoria of the first Armistice Day, and the disillusionment which followed. Location: Leicester LE1 Image: Armistice Day in Leicester, courtesy of Leicestershire Record Office