

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: We Came By Sea
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: We Came by Sea bears witness to hope and humanity. It is a journey through an unexamined nation.About this EventEvery day and every night when the sea was calm they came, and most days the newspapers and the websites said the same thing: ‘migrants’ in ‘small boats’ were crossing the English Channel. Rescuers were ‘overwhelmed’, coastal towns were ‘up in arms’. Over and over, the headlines and the photographs told us this story.But no story has only one side, as Horatio Clare discovered when he began his journeys between Dover and Calais, where he met and listened to the volunteers who help thousands of people every year, from the lifeboat crews mounting operations to the countless unrecognised, uncelebrated British people who are giving their all to help the vulnerable and desperate.We Came by Sea bears witness to hope and humanity. It is a journey through an unexamined nation – a nation which is every bit as great and good as the people in the dinghies believe it to be. This is not the story that we have been told, but it is a true story.Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2025.Horatio Clare is a critically acclaimed author and journalist. His first book, Running for the Hills, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second book, Truant, was heralded by The Irish Times as a ‘stunningly well-written memoir.’ A Single Swallow was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year while Down to the Sea in Ships won the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year in 2015. Horatio’s first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, won the Branford Boase Award for debut children’s book. He has written two books about mental health: Heavy Light and Your Journey Your Way. Previously with Little Toller books Horatio has published Orison for a Curlew and Something of his Art. He lives in West Yorkshire.Praise for We Came by Sea“I would read anything Horatio Clare wrote. His prose is always brilliant, and by turns funny, furious and heart-piercingly compassionate. He lights up – no, he scintillates – any subject that finds itself in receipt of the gift of his attention.”Robert Macfarlane“It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare’s skill turn attention to this topic, and he does not avoid referencing corruption and other wrongdoing by those in power.”Sally Hayden, The Irish Times“[Clare’s] job, executed wonderfully well, is to help us to think calmly and intelligently about those arriving in small boats, to consider giving them a chance and to recognise that we have more in common with them than we might imagine.”Maggie Fergusson, The SpectatorAccess and Covid safety measures: if you have specific access needs or queries and/or prefer to be seated away from other audience members as a Covid safety measure, please contact our Admin at: info@huddlitfest.org.uk with your request.Saturday 9 May2pm-3pmAttic, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street HD1 2SP£8 (£7 conc) free ticket for University of Huddersfield staff and students and essential carers accompanying a ticket holder (Early bird tickets £6 (£5 conc) to midnight on Monday 6 April.)Age guidance: 16+Access Guide: Access and Covid safety measures: if you have specific access needs or queries and/or prefer to be seated away from other audience members as a Covid safety measure, please contact our Admin at: info@huddlitfest.org.uk with your request.Concession &amp; Carers: For further information on concession and essential carer tickets, please visit our FAQ's page.Eventbrite note: When purchasing tickets please download the Eventbrite 'app' or 'create an Eventbrite account'. This will facilitate quicker access to your tickets.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/huddersfield/we-came-by-sea/100001980462343181
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, theatre, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 9.38, currency: GBP

## Event venue details

- **city**: Huddersfield
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Lawrence Batley Theatre
- **lat**: 53.6450778
- **long**: -1.7799271
- **full address**: Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Huddersfield Literature Festival (https://allevents.in/org/huddersfield-literature-festival/23467309)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 9.38 GBP
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Huddersfield Literature Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, health-wellness, theatre, mental-health
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about We Came By Sea ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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