BRADFORD'S Peace Museum has received a National Lottery grant of £4,900 for a project about the peace treaty at the end of the First World War.

The grant was awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund's First World War then and now programme, and made possible by National Lottery players.

It will fund an exhibition called A Flawed Peace? which will feature a 1919 copy of the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty signed after the war, that belonged to a Bradford politician.

The exhibition will open at The Peace Museum on Thursday, November 1, and run until Friday, June 28, 2019, which will mark 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

The project will also enable local Bradford children and young people to get involved and learn about this important heritage.

New Focus, a group of young people from Impressions Gallery, Bradford, will help research the project and assist in creating the exhibition. There will be 15 free school workshops offered to local Bradford primary and secondary schools as part of the project, which will engage over 450 pupils with the exhibition and give them an opportunity to learn about the heritage.

A travelling exhibition will also be created which will be used in schools and can be used by community groups as an educational tool during and after the project.

A series of events will run throughout the exhibition which the local Bradford community will be encouraged to attend. An opening event will take place on Thursday, November 1, at the museum, followed by a special opening of the museum to mark Remembrance Day on Sunday, November 11. Further events will be announced.

Shannen Lang, learning and engagement officer at The Peace Museum, said: "We are delighted to receive this support thanks to National Lottery players.

"The heritage of the post-war peace is so important and must be remembered; the war may have ended on November 11th, but the peace process took much longer, and the world took even longer to recover. We are excited to use our First World War collection and welcome the local community to get involved with the exhibition."

David Renwick, head of Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire and the Humber, said: "The impact of the First World War was far reaching, touching and shaping every corner of the UK and beyond. Thanks to National Lottery players, HLF has already invested more than £90million to more than 1,700 projects - large and small - that are marking this global Centenary; with our small grants programme, we are enabling even more communities like those involved in A Flawed Peace to explore the continuing legacy of this conflict and help local people to broaden their understanding of how it has shaped our modern world."

Further details about the project and events will be announced in the autumn.