‘Forget Me Not’ - The role of Military Pin-Stuck Cushions in WWI

Name: ‘Forget Me Not’ - The role of Military Pin-Stuck Cushions in WWI
Start: 2026-11-08T14:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-08T16:30:00.000Z
Location: Abney Chapel

When

Sunday 8 November

14:30 – 16:30

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Price

£6.75–11

General admission £11; concession £6.75.

Where

Abney Chapel

Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

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Folklorist Alessandra Curtis explores the history and emotional meaning of handmade military pin-stuck cushions from the First World War.

This Remembrance-season talk examines how soldiers’ gifts of heart-shaped cushions used pins, military insignia and other keepsakes to express remembrance and family bonds. Alessandra Curtis places these objects within the history of the Imperial War Graves Commission and Abney Park’s First World War burials.