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 […]
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 […]
Hertfordshire puddingstone is one of the world's most remarkable stones. Beautiful and very distinctive, giant boulders of it can be seen in Saffron Walden and the surrounding villages. The talk […]