Chichester Literary Society

Our Next Meeting

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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.

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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

Dr Alison Habens

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.

http://chichesterpoetry.

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Guest poets launch each session followed by an open mic. Listeners equally welcome. 7.30pm

 JUBILEE HALL, NEW PARK CENTRE, CHICHESTER, PO19 7XY.

 

 

 

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montague.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin

We welcome old and new members and visitors to Boxgrove Village Hall.

Nigel Gossop - John Keats Talk , Sep ‘24
Beryl with Simon Brett
Prof. Bridget Escolme
Mike Rumble + Audience Member, Aug'24 Heraldry Talk