Horrible Histories: Terrible Trenches Exhibition

Based on 'The Trenches Handbook', one of the books in Terry Deary's popular 'Horrible Histories' series, this family exhibition employs the same irreverent tone to explain how soldiers dealt with fierce flies, foul food, gruesome gas, sickness and sores. It shows, too, how war made people tell lies and how enemy soldiers stopped fighting and abandoned their trenches to engage in a friendly football match. Multisensory activities are much in evidence with opportunities to wake up and smell the stench, disguise yourself as a tree or peer through a periscope into a no man's land specially drawn for the exhibition, by 'Horrible Histories' artist Martin Brown. Age 8-12.