Chichester Literary Society

Our Next Meeting

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Next Meeting

Wednesday 7 May

2pm

Cross-Dressed to Kill

Presented by

Vivien Morgan

 

CLS Full Programme 2025

Available to download from link below or see our Events page calendar.

CLS 2025 Brochure pdf-1

Membership 2025

Friendly reminder – please renew your membership.

Details and membership form on the About page.

 

Meeting Venue

Boxgrove Village Hall,

PO18 OEE

Large free car park and a bus stop at the venue.

Membership details are on the About page.

Details

Wednesday 7 May

2pm

Cross- Dressed to Kill

Presented by

Vivien Morgan

Vivien Morgan

A unique collection of extraordinary stories of brave women, masquerading as men, from the 17th- 20th century, fighting as soldiers, risking harsh penalties, including the death penalty. The practice was seen as an unnatural act that threatened society and offended the social morality of the time. Vivien’s book Cross-Dressed to Kill – women who went to war disguised as men was published in 2020.

Please Note

Visitors – Please buy Tickets in advance for June 4 Event 

June 4,  2pm  Great Plans and Big Egos – Operation Overlord Normandy 1944

presented by General the Lord Richards of Herstmonceux.

Visitors (i.e. non-members) must buy tickets (£8) in advance for this event. Tickets will not be available at the door. Please pay by cheque or Bank Transfer to our Treasurer, Brian French.

Details below:

Please make cheques payable to Chichester Literary Society and send to

Dr. Brian French, 8, Barncroft Close, Tangmere, Chichester, PO20 2FE or pay by online Bank Transfer (Chichester Literary Society, Sort Code 20 20 65, Account No:50407992 + your surname and initials + June 4 Meeting for reference.

 

 

 

See below Photos and reports (Journal/Talks page) on our recent meetings – Pauline Rowson and her  books at our March ’25 meeting.

Local Literary News and Events

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.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
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.
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.

CLS 20th Anniversary Cake Brian and Louise