Our Next Meeting
Wednesday 2 October
2pm
The Mystery of the Haberdasher’s Scissors
Presented by
Dr Alison Habens and Matt Wingett
More information on Dr. Habens on our Speaker page.
Video – Looking for William Day
June 15, 2024
Created by Kevin Maynard
Click on link below to view.
Meeting Venue
Boxgrove Village Hall,
PO18 OEE
Membership details are on the About page.
There is a large free car park and a bus stop outside the venue.
Details
Wednesday 2 October
2pm
The Mystery of the Haberdasher’s Scissors
Presented by
Dr Alison Habens and Matt Wingett
Writers and researchers, Dr Alison Habens and Matt Wingett claim to have discovered an extraordinary fact: three famous literary figures, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling met each other in the early 1880’s in Southsea. Even more amazing, they were involved in a dark mystery that might have come from straight from one of their own stories. Here it unfold, through a series of extracts from their autobiographies, solve a few clues yourself and work out where the boundary between history and pure invention lies.
See below Photos and reports (Journal/Talks page) on our recent successful Looking for William day held on Saturday 15 June. See photos below from Looking for William Day and our September ’24 Keats Talk.
Local Literary News and Events
CLS Member Publishes War Memoir
David Warwick, one of our long term members has published a WW11 memoir called Home Front Wickham (Crumps Barn Studio, £9.99, 140p, illustrated with photos and sketches) based on his memories and his mother’s diaries, written in secret and only discovered after her death. Their house in Hampshire became a shelter for evacuees from the Blitz and she was appointed to the role of billeting officer by the Rural District Council.
David is a retired University lecturer. He has served as a teacher, senior lecturer and professor at schools and universities across the UK and abroad. He studied History and Theology at London University, College of St Mark and St John. and has written widely in the fields of Education, Management and Religion. He and his wife Ann recently celebrated their Diamond Anniversary. Congratulations David on the book and the anniversary!
Copies are available for purchase at our meetings and online and at any bookshop.
Open Mic Poetry Chichester
For more information please go to the website below.
Guest poets launch each session followed by an open mic. Listeners equally welcome. 7.30pm
JUBILEE HALL, NEW PARK CENTRE, CHICHESTER, PO19 7XY.
We welcome old and new members and visitors to Boxgrove Village Hall.
