📘Adam Cartwright - 10.00am - 11.00am - £5 book signing
📘Local author
📘Batemans Brewery marked its 150th anniversary in 2024. Adam was allowed access to their historical records - dusty ledgers, invoices and letters which revealed a range of opinions, arguments, gambles and more. This talk will reveal how 5 generations of the same family combined to maintain the firm's independence in the face of major challenges which threatened to end the business.
📕Nicholas Bennett - 11.30am - 12.30pm - £5 book signing
📕Senior Fellow of the University of Lincoln and Editor of the Lincoln Record
📕Arthur Hopkins arrived in November 1942 as the newly appointed vicar of St Thomas' church. He was already writing a diary for the social research organisation Mass Observation and continued to do so recording conversations, prices, books, weddings, funerals, visits to public houses and, of course, to the Wednesday market. This talk will provide a fascinating insight into Boston during the War.
📗Rory Waterman and Anna Milon - 1.30pm - 2.30pm - £5 book signing
📗Rory Waterman -Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University and Anna Milon - Post-Graduate Research Assistant with Alison Brackenbury, Robert Etty, John Gallas and Alex Harvey
📗Rory and Anna Milon's book 'Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined' will be published in February 2025. This anthology of reimagined local folk tales or stories and poems that derive from local folk tales provide a rich history of the county and will be brought to life by Rory, Anna and the readers.
📙Rosanna McGlone - 3.00pm - 4.00pm - £5 book launch & signing
📙Professional Writer and National Journalist
📙Join Rosanna as she discusses the principles behind her book of medieval short stories, the meaning of authenticity and how important the truth is. Come and hear about Nicholaa de la Haye and Alice de Lacy and learn how Rosanna used the source materials.
Disabled Access
Refreshments will be available at Fydell House.
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