A WRITER and actor is bringing an acclaimed one-woman show to Silsden.

Irene Lofthouse will present Words, Women and War: Forgotten Female Voices of The Great War as part of the town’s remembrance commemorations.

The Yorkshire-based performer – who is also an award-winning publisher – is a regular at literature and arts festivals, including Edinburgh Fringe, and has appeared in films and on TV and radio.

She will be at Silsden Town Hall on Saturday, November 9, at the invitation of the town’s Local History Group.

Words, Women and War is the story of four Yorkshire women whose remarkable lives and connections to the First World War have largely been forgotten.

The quartet includes Alberta Vickridge, a poet and printer who remains the only Yorkshire woman ever to be crowned Bard at the Welsh Eisteddfod.

Born in Bradford in around 1890, she attended Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and then the city’s School of Art.

She enlisted as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in 1917, working at a Torquay hospital which received hundreds of wounded soldiers from the Western Front.

Some of her most acclaimed poems reflect her wartime experiences and, shortly before he was killed, she beat Wilfred Owen into second place in a poetry-writing competition.

Another of those to feature in the show is Flora Sands, the only British woman known to have served as a soldier in the Great War.

Disguised as a man, she joined the Serbian Army, and her name is still honoured each year in Serbia.

The Silsden show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available, priced £10, from Twiggs newsagents in Kirkgate.