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South Australia’s History Festival: Living with a War Story

Date 23 May 2026 Time 01:00 PM AEST Where Centennial Park Function Rooms

Historian Neil Churches reflects on what it means to live alongside a war story. Drawing on a personal family connection to the Second World War — his father Ralph Churches was among the Allied prisoners of war who escaped from a German POW camp in what is now Slovenia — the talk explores memory, loss and connection, and how history quietly shapes lives long after the events themselves have passed.