Gail Ham will be known to many of you as one of the foremost personalities, and experts, in local history research. Tonight she will provide insights into the displacement of the residents of the South Hams in 1943 and 1944. In particular, she will explain:

• why it happened and how it happened
• reactions to it at the time
• the return to the land to its former residents and how and when these historic events were commemorated”