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#WomenWWI - In partnership, HMS Caroline and the Public Service of Northern Ireland (PRONI) will present an afternoon themed around archive creation and care on 23 March.

The time for the event is 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm and held at the premises of PRONI in the Titanic Quarter, Belfast.

This event is part of Belfast Strategic Partnership's Festival of Learning, 2017.

The Festival of Learning aims to demonstrate learning in all its forms across Belfast, covering;

learning through education

learning for life

learning to live together

learning for and in work

The session will include a tour of PRONI’s archive focusing on aspects that relate to the First World War and Women’s History.

This will be followed be a session led by the Curatorial and Learning Teams at HMS Caroline discussing the approach to building and creating an archive of oral history and ephemeral material related to WRNS (Women’s Royal Naval Service) history at HMS Caroline.

Booking for this event is Free by clicking through Eventbrite here.

On a separate yet related note Afloat advises that HMS Caroline which is located nearby to PRONI, is currently closed for hull conservation work at Harland & Wolff and is due to reopen this Spring.

For further details and updates visit the website of HMS Caroline, the recently restored last floating survivor of the 1916 Battle of Jutland.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago