Our 2025 AGM took place as a face-to-face meeting in the Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 14th May at 7:30pm. Documents that will also be handed out at the AGM […]
Just off Fleet Street, in what was the heart of the British national press is the St Bride Foundation. It was set up in 1891 as an institution to support the people and printers of Fleet Street, providing both education and recreation. It had a school of printing to educate printers in the newest technologies […]
Perry has a long-standing interest in food history and social history, and many members will recall her excellent talk about Twelfth Night. In 2018 she was invited to take on […]
Hosted by local poet Hannah Walker the evening featured old and new poetry and include 'open mike' sessions. Come along to share your poems, or just to listen. If you […]
Old herbals, marginalia, saffron cultivation and Tudor poet, Gabriel Harvey of Saffron Walden will all be discussed in the next talk of the Gibson Library Society. In the sixteenth and […]
The meeting was held in Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 14th January at 7:30 pm, when author Ian Patterson talked about his new publication, Books: A Manifesto, or, How to […]
Rachel Morris talked about her new book, The Year of the Wizard, a lyrical and highly atmospheric history of Renaissance magic. It is also - by an act of historical […]
In his talk Jonathan discussed how witchcraft cases in Elizabethan Essex were reported in pamphlets of the time and what readers might have made of the strange stories they were […]