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A celebration of the links between history and imagination highlighting the reasons why we love to read about the past!
Pricing for the week's events as follows:
£15 - full access to all talks
£5 - Sarah Gristwood's talk
£3 - each individual talk
Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment as spaces will be limited. Further details on each of the talks can be found below and you can click here to book your tickets.
Download the PDF event guide here...
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Join Angus Donald as he talks about his bestselling Outlaw Chronicles. His other books include the Holcroft Blood novels and a new Viking series starting with “The Last Berserker” published this year.
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Sarah is a best-selling historical biographer, novelist, broadcaster, former film journalist and commentator on royal affairs. Her talk will focus on the research behind Arbella: England’s Lost Queen - the story of Bess of Hardwick’s Granddaughter.
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Acclaimed historical fiction author Clare Harvey talks about how her adopted home city of Nottingham inspired her novel The Night Raid, featuring a fictionalised account of war artist Laura Knight.
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Do you want to know more about weaving a fictional narrative around historical facts? Liz Carney-Marsh uses the example of her story inspired by members of the Women’s Land Army at Clumber Park to show how history can excite the imagination.
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Was Lord Byron really ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’? Was Jane Austen ‘a narrow-gutted spinster’? Join PhD researchers Ruby Hawley-Sibbett and Amy Wilcockson for a discussion of these polarised figures.
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Local writer Mahsuda Snaith talks about her experience as a writer for Colonial Countryside; a nationwide project to delve into the colonial connections of National Trust properties. Focussing on Kedleston Hall, Mahsuda will discuss how the research led to a series of short stories.
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