{"id":800,"date":"2020-05-07T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=800"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T11:57:50","slug":"ve-day-8-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/05\/07\/ve-day-8-may\/","title":{"rendered":"VE Day 8 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-801 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/05\/VE-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VE Day<\/strong>\u00a0(Victory in Europe Day) is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War Two of Nazi Germany\u2019s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday 8 May 1945.\u00a0The British public is being urged to share stories and memories of those who lived through the war to mark this year\u2019s VE Day.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the entire Second World War generation, from British, Commonwealth and Allied Forces to evacuees and those who served on the home front.<\/p>\n<p>At 11am, the Royal British Legion are encouraging people across all generations and communities to take part in a national moment of Remembrance and pause for a Two Minute Silence to honour the service and sacrifice of the Second World War generation and reflect on the devastating impact Covid-19 has had on so many lives across the world.<\/p>\n<p>With members of the public unable to attend VE Day 75 events, The Royal British Legion <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlegion.org.uk\"><strong>britishlegion.org.uk<\/strong><\/a> is playing a central role in the delivery of a range of remote activity, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishlegion.org.uk\/stories\/ve-day-75-webcast\"><strong>live VE Day 75 livestream<\/strong><\/a>at 11.15am<\/li>\n<li>National moments of Remembrance and thanksgiving, including a Two Minute Silence<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishlegion.org.uk\/stories\/ve-day-singalong\"><strong>UK-wide singalong<\/strong><\/a>to Vera Lynn\u2019s \u2018We\u2019ll Meet Again at 9pm<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishlegion.org.uk\/get-involved\/remembrance\/teaching-remembrance\"><strong>VE Day learning pack<\/strong><\/a>for children aged 7-14 years<\/li>\n<li>An evening of memories and music in partnership with the BBC from 8pm on BBC One<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VE Day\u00a0(Victory in Europe Day) is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War Two of Nazi Germany\u2019s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday 8 May 1945.\u00a0The British public is being urged to share stories and memories of those who lived through the war to mark this year\u2019s VE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/05\/07\/ve-day-8-may\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VE Day 8 May&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commemorative-event","category-posts-about-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}