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Our one-off performance of Strikers! - The Vale Rawlings Story, at Burton Town Hall last December was filmed live and we will be holding...

Can we find descendants of the 1914 Burton factory workers? Elaine was honoured to be invited to give a short talk about the Vale...

This week (Feb 24) marks a year since the formation of The Vale Rawlings Project Community Interest Company by Elaine Pritchard and Will...

We're excited by new opportunities to share the Vale Rawlings story with people across the Midlands. Tonight is Elaine Pritchard's first...

It's always a good day when a bit of research and reading around a subject uncovers another forgotten Burton story. This week I was...

The money from tickets sold for our production of Strikers! at Burton Town Hall last month has been handed over to the two town-based...

Did you know that you can book Elaine Pritchard to give a talk to your group, club or organisation about Vale Rawlings and his life and...

Every councillor on East Staffordshire Borough Council has backed a proposal to name a room after Vale Rawlings, just three days after we...

Bethany Warren, Heather Gallagher and Dan Tunks in the emotive We'll Meet Again scene of Strikers! Image by Geoff Noble The large gothic...

Councillors on East Staffordshire Borough Council are proposing that a room at Burton Town Hall is named in honour of the trade unionist...

Elaine Pritchard has made a surprise discovery, thanks to an audience member at a talk she gave. She has also been investigating whether...

Elaine Pritchard, author of the new Vale Rawlings play Strikers! , will be giving her first public talk about the life of this forgotten...

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...

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...

Both episodes of The Politics Show on Micro Brew Radio, which covered the official launch of the Vale Rawlings Project, are now available...

You can listen to a recording of the official launch of The Vale Rawlings Project on Burton's community radio station - Micro Brew...

On May 29 the Vale Rawlings Project was officially launched at the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent. An invited audience was drawn...