Author Graham Palmer has created a 15-minute video and accompanying podcast about a Royston postcard from WWI which he found on eBay.

Both will feature in the Society of Genealogist's All About That Place festival, which runs from Friday, September 27 to Sunday, October 6.

The video - A girl, a goat and Gallipoli - will launch on Sunday, September 29 and be viewable for 14 days at https://www.sog.org.uk/all-about-that-place-2024---itinerary/#day3.

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It uses music by Royston-born composer Jenni Pinnock, and the postcard is now part of Royston Museum's collection.

Graham said: "It was posted from one of the houses opposite the heath. From the message on the back it was clear that the writer was really not happy that 1,100 Welsh soldiers would soon be leaving the town.

"That got me thinking 'Why was she so sad? And what were they doing here anyway?'."