Our next Library talk will be with Claire Lucas presenting, "In My Element" - Stories and Images From the Library. This will take place in the Reading Room from 2pm-3pm on Saturday 18th October. Claire will reflect on her time as Artist in Residence at The Morrab Library. She will talk about her project “In My Element", where she spent time with her […]
PLEASE NOTE: This talk is fully booked. Our next Library talk comes from returning speaker, Sarah Latham-Phillips, MA. On Wednesday 10th December (2pm-3pm) she will be speaking about Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in the centenary year of the novel. Sarah's illustrated talk will place Virginia Woolf in the context of Modernism and the contemporary art and literature scene, explaining briefly the key […]
Join local historian Evie Bond on Saturday 14th March for a talk and workshop, as she explores the tales of Cornish saints who offered protection and guidance through wild winter weather. Evie will talk on the legends of saints whose stories speak of storms weathered, seas calmed, and winter’s passing. Following the presentation, and inspired […]
Mark Beeson (1954-2022) was trained as a classicist and primatologist. From 1989-2022 he was artistic director of Manaton & East Dartmoor Theatre (MED Theatre) which he founded. Mark’s greatest legacy is his creative and ecological writing of poetry and plays relating to Dartmoor. As long ago as 1980 his epic poem – The Walk – won […]
In August 1851 a curiously dressed, elderly woman was seen trudging along Southampton High Street. Passers by couldn’t fail to notice her, she wore a huge beaver bonnet and carried a corracle-like basket on her back. She was a Cornish fisherwoman, she said, in her 84th year, and was walking to London from […]