A COPY of the Treaty of Versailles will be part of an exhibition looking at the peace process following the First World War.

The Peace Museum will be running A Flawed Peace? which focusses on both heritage of the war and heritage of the peace following the First World War and features a 1919 copy of the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty signed after the war.

The 1919 copy of the Treaty of Versailles belonged to Bradford politician Meredith Farrah Titterington and has remained in Bradford throughout its near one-hundred-year history.

The exhibition opens in the city centre museum on Thursday November 1 with a special event and reception from 5.30-8.00pm.

The event features a talk by Impressions Gallery’s young people’s collective New Focus on their research related to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

A series of events will take place throughout the exhibition including a special opening of the museum to mark Remembrance Day on Sunday November 11 from noon to 2pm, an International Women’s Day event featuring Dr Pippa Oldfield from Impressions Gallery, ‘Women’s Photography and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919’ and a closing event featuring ‘Peace day July 1919 and the parade that never happened’ by Bradford WW1 historian Dr Kathryn Hughes.

The exhibition will run until Friday June 28 2019, which will mark 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

A Flawed Peace? Will examine the question of whether the post-war peace after the First World War was flawed and will explore the kind of peace that was agreed. It will look at perspectives from different nations, peace groups, and individuals.

The Peace Museum are working on the project with New Focus who are a group of young people from Impressions Gallery as a continuation of their successful Young Roots funded No Man’s Land project.

Research by New Focus into The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles, will inform part of the exhibition.

As part of this project The Peace Museum will offer free school workshops to local primary and secondary schools which will engage over 450 pupils with the exhibition.

More details about the education sessions and how to book them are available on The Peace Museum website.

A Flawed Peace? is supported by a National Lottery grant awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War then and now programme and made possible by National Lottery players. During the week beginning Monday December 3 any visitors who bring their lottery tickets to the exhibition will receive a Peace Museum badge as part of Heritage Lottery Fund’s #ThanksToYou campaign.

Shannen Lang, Learning and Engagement Officer at The Peace Museum said: “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."