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Vale Rawlings Room agreed for Burton Town Hall
Every councillor on East Staffordshire Borough Council has backed a proposal to name a room after Vale Rawlings, just three days after we...
Dec 10, 20247 min read


Strikers! is a hit
Bethany Warren, Heather Gallagher and Dan Tunks in the emotive We'll Meet Again scene of Strikers! Image by Geoff Noble The large gothic...
Dec 8, 20245 min read


Lasting legacy in Burton for Vale Rawlings
Councillors on East Staffordshire Borough Council are proposing that a room at Burton Town Hall is named in honour of the trade unionist...
Dec 2, 20244 min read


A Rawlings Job and the Bantam Battalions
Elaine Pritchard has made a surprise discovery, thanks to an audience member at a talk she gave. She has also been investigating whether...
Oct 24, 20246 min read


First Vale talk booked with Burton Civic Society
Elaine Pritchard, author of the new Vale Rawlings play Strikers! , will be giving her first public talk about the life of this forgotten...
Sep 27, 20242 min read


Tickets now on sale
We're delighted to tell you that tickets are now on sale for our special, one-off reading of Strikers! The Vale Rawlings Story , a new...
Sep 9, 20244 min read


Strikers! to premiere in Burton
A date is now set for the premiere of the community play about Vale Rawlings, which is called 'Strikers!' It will be staged as a...
Jul 15, 20243 min read


Catch-up online!
Both episodes of The Politics Show on Micro Brew Radio, which covered the official launch of the Vale Rawlings Project, are now available...
Jun 28, 20241 min read


Hear us on community radio
You can listen to a recording of the official launch of The Vale Rawlings Project on Burton's community radio station - Micro Brew...
Jun 18, 20241 min read


Vale's project launches
On May 29 the Vale Rawlings Project was officially launched at the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent. An invited audience was drawn...
May 30, 20241 min read
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