Letters Home

Letters Home explores different elements of letters written during the First World War, with displays at Bantock House Museum and Wolverhampton City Archives.

At Bantock House, letters are displayed alongside objects selected from Wolverhampton’s collection and relevant items loaned from local collectors. Thoughts and memories of everyday life back home were recorded in letters sent to mothers, wives and sweethearts by young soldiers far away. These poignant words are contextualised and brought to life, presented next to objects that are symbolic of their thoughts and hopes.