Events

This event will be in the same format as before with “Open Mic” sessions. Come early at 7:15pm to book your place if you would like to read something. The theme is loosely Autumnal with nature, bonfires, longer nights and cosy evenings all there to celebrate. (nb. Readings should be no longer than 8 minutes) […]

David Pearson has recently distilled the fruits of many years of research into bindings into two books, Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1770 (2023) and Bookbindings: an illustrated history (2026). In this illustrated talk he will set out what we can learn from bindings and the questions we should put to them, drawing on his books and also […]

In her recent book Nature’s Apothecary Margaret selected one hundred plants and showed how they have been used medicinally and socially over the centuries. Her talk will concentrate on a […]

Join us on Twelfth Night for a talk by Perry Staker as she takes a look at one of Shakespeare’s much-loved plays – a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, a […]