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History Festival at a Glance
Sunday 4 October
Festival Service
Monday 5 October
James Wright
The Buildings Archaeologist: Discovering the Secrets of Britain’s Ancient Buildings
Jonathan Healey
The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642
Katja Hoyer
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Michael Scott
Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind
Tuesday 6 October
Corina Apostu
England’s Maecenas: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester as a Cultural Patron
British Motor Museum
The History of the British Sports Car
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire
Inside the Warwick Castle Archives
Alison Weir
The Boleyn Secret
Max Adams
Domesday: 1,000 Miles on Foot Through the England of the Norman Conquest
Warwick Castle History Team
Warwick Castle: Behind Closed Doors
Gary Mead
Montgomery: Unbeatable, Unbearable
Wednesday 7 October
British Motor Museum
Talking Shop
Anna Whitelock
The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain
Rachel Trethewey
Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother
Antonia Senior
Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
Aaron Manning
England’s Bears: The Blood and Glory of the House of Warwick
Thursday 8 October
British Motor Museum
Talking Shop
Adam Wood
Crime and Punishment in Victorian Warwick
Angie Hobbs
Why Plato Matters Now
– An In-Depth Conversation
Guy Walters
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket
Elizabeth Goldring
Holbein: Renaissance Master
David Kynaston
Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965 – 66
Friday 9 October
Francis Young
Fairies: A History
British Motor Museum
The RAF Gaydon Story
Stella Fletcher
Edwin F Reynolds – A Warwickshire Architect
Hayley Nolan
Notorious: Anne Boleyn and the Great Tudor Hoax
Adam Busiakiewicz
Sir Fulke Greville – Collector, Builder, Gardener, Poet and Warwickshire Man
Rachel Morley
Church Crawling: The Secret Lives and Hidden Stories of England’s Churches
Saturday 10 October
Matt Halford
A Tour of its Grounds, Gardens and Veteran Trees
Gareth Russell
A Night Mis-Remembered: The Splendour and Tragedy of the
Titanic
Penny Roberts
Letters Hidden in a Basket of Cheese: Uncovering a Clandestine European Network
Dan Cruikshank
The English House: A History in Eight Buildings
Sophie Mann
Double Nature, Double Care: Religion and Medicine in Early Modern England
Lesley Smith
Florence Nightingale
Nathen Amin, Nicola Tallis and Matt Lewis
Women of the Wars of the Roses: Blood, Crowns and Power
Sunday 11 October
Lucy Noakes
The People’s Victory: VE Day, 1945
Tara Morton
Votes for Women! The Fight for Female Suffrage in Warwickshire and Coventry
Erin Goeres
Nineteen Days in Autumn: A New History of 1066
Max Hastings
Plunder: The Last of the War in Europe, 1945
Iain MacGregor
Battle: The Moments that Transformed Warfare from Ancient Greece to Ukraine
Dan Jones
Castles: A Fortified History of the World
University of Warwick Talks
Michael Scott
Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind
Monday 5 October
Penny Roberts
Letters Hidden in a Basket of Cheese: Uncovering a Clandestine European Network
Saturday 10 October
Sophie Mann
Double Nature, Double Care: Religion and Medicine in Early Modern England
Saturday 10 October
Tara Morton
Votes for Women! The Fight for Female Suffrage in Warwickshire and Coventry
Sunday 11 October
Friday 16 October
Andrew Roberts
Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal
