Appledore Past

Sat 24th Sep, 2011, 11:00am - 5:00pm

Appledore Hall £0.50

Appledorians Wherever You Are! Back by popular request after last year’s success, Appledore Day offers Appledorians all over the UK an opportunity to link up with old friends on...

Andy Powell

Sat 24th Sep, 2011, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Baptist Chapel £6.00

Sir Richard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1587, 117 men, women and children landed in North Carolina, the vanguard of Sir Walter Raleigh’s mission to found...

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David Carter – History Walk 1

Sat 24th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

Lost Appledore. A walking tour of historic Appledore, starting from St Mary’s Hall. Following the sell-out walks last year, local historian David Carter has come up with a brand new walk...

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Trevor Hill

Mon 26th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

A Century of Social Change: 1910-2010 The first County secondary school in Devon was founded in Barnstaple in 1910 and From Grammar to Park celebrates its history in words...

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David Carter – History Walk 2

Mon 26th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

Lost Appledore. Another chance to join local historian David Carter on this brand new walk for the 2011 Festival. The title of the walk is Lost  Appledore and David...

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David Carter – History Walk 3

Tue 27th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

Lost Appledore. Another chance to join local historian David Carter on this brand new walk for the 2011 Festival. The title of the walk is Lost  Appledore and David...

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Peter Hennessy: The Secret State

Thu 29th Sep, 2011, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Baptist Chapel £6.00

The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst, 1945-2010. In his landmark book The Secret State, Professor Peter Hennessy reveals the extraordinary plans for governing Britain in the aftermath of...

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Kathryn Ferry: Sheds on the Shore

Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

Sheds on the Seashore. Historian and author Kathryn Ferry reveals how the diminutive painted structures lining our coast have evolved over the centuries. In her illustrated talk the nation’s...

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Terry Bailey – Ghost Walk

Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 9:00pm - 11:00pm

The Royal George Pub £5.00

As darkness falls follow Terry Bailey through Appledore’s winding lanes, alleys and churchyards with their histories of hauntings, unexplained happenings and lost souls. You must have an advance ticket...

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Richard Fortey: Survivors

Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Baptist Chapel £8.00

Survivors: Horse-shoe Crabs, Velvet Worms and other Living Fossils. The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise.  In...

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Helen Castor: She-Wolves

Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Baptist Chapel £8.00

She-Wolves: The Women who Ruled England before Elizabeth. On the death of Edward VII,son of Henry VIII royal power came to rest in female hands for the first time....

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Anthony Tucker-Jones

Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

St. Mary’s Hall £5.00

Killing bin Laden. A former Defence Intelligence Officer gives us the inside story.  On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, author Anthony Tucker-Jones discusses the rise of Osama bin Laden...

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Terry Bailey – Ghost Walk

Sat 1st Oct, 2011, 9:00pm - 11:00pm

The Royal George Pub £5.00

Another chance to prowl with Terry Bailey through Appledore’s winding lanes, alleys and churchyards with their histories of hauntings, unexplained happenings and lost souls. You must have an advance...

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Virginia Nicholson

Sun 2nd Oct, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

St Mary’s Church £8.00

Acclaimed for Among the Bohemians, documenting the lives of her Bloomsbury Group forbears, and Singled Out, on the generation of women left single after the First World War, Virginia Nicholson’s...

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William and Virginia Nicholson: Double Bill

Sun 2nd Oct, 2011, 4:00pm - 7:00pm

St Mary’s Church £12

Who can forget the heartbreaking beauty of Shadowlands, William’s award winning play, and later film, about the love between C S Lewis and Joy Gresham? Or Crash, exploring financial...

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