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An emotion filled audience silently listened to a moving talk about the tragic life of the last Empress of Punjab at The Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa. Jindan Kaur, a courageous woman and exile, who was forcibly separated from her son Duleep Singh and spent her final years in London.

The church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London's Trafalgar Square, with its long tradition of practical Christianity, holds a warm place in the hearts of many British people. Every year, the vicar's Christmas Appeal on BBC radio raises over £500,000 for disadvantaged people, and the open-door policy formulated during the First World War by its charismatic vicar, Dick Sheppard, is well upheld today by vicar Nicholas Holtam and his team.

A Gripping Story of Sacrifice, Suffering, and Ongoing Injustice. In 1916 German scientists made an 80-second audio recording of a Sikh soldier captured at the Battle of Flanders during WWI. The starving soldier, Mal Singh, yearns to return to his home in the Punjab, the "land of butter and milk."

Visitors to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery were moved and inspired as internationally renowned artists the Singh Twins brought to life through art the traumatic events of 1984. The focus of the evening was their iconic painting ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four', which depicts the events that took place in Amritsar 25 years ago.

Against the stunning backdrop of the Tower of London, ‘Tigerstyle' took over 200 people who gathered on the historic grounds, on a musical Journey through history. Launching this year's event series Heritage Shared, presented by the Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail,