2018 Programme

Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 June 2018

2018 Programme

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Our third Literary Festival sees Buckingham hosting another glittering array of speakers. It is a great pleasure to see that the reputation we have already established is attracting literary figures of the highest quality to Buckingham. This success is due to the wonderful backing we have had from sponsors, friends, benefactors and, of course, you the audience. Thank you for your support and we hope that you enjoy this year’s feast of interesting talks, discussions, workshops and drama. So welcome to the Festival and we hope that you leave having been inspired, challenged and entertained by the stimulating events.

The organising committee: Heather Adams, Mike Bryan, Chloe Woodhead, Christopher Woodhead, Vivienne Wordley

Patrons: Carolyn and Robert Cumming, Sir Anthony Seldon

With many thanks to: BCG printers, Buckingham Bookshop, Buckingham Town Council, Buckingham Summer Festival, Friends of Buckingham Library, HMA Literary Agency, IngramSpark, Michael Graham, Swan and Pen, The Film Place, The Old Gaol, The University of Buckingham, University of Buckingham Press. www.bucklitfest.org

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BuckLitFest Literary Visit to IngramSpark and Local Quiz Night 10.30-1pm Fri 15 June To include a delicious Off site at IngramSpark Head Office supper and a drink Lib Tickets £10 2a Infantilise Humanity? A visit to Print-on-Demand and e-book publisher, IngramSpark, to discover 6.30-10.00pm Thu 14 June how to make your book a reality. The Woolpack Well Street MK18 1EP Based at Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes, Tickets £15 pp inc. supper 1a just 12 miles from Buckingham. Bring along a team of 4 or join one on Programme: the night for an evening of fun and 10.30 Meet at Kiln Farm for coffee questions. 11.00 Introduction to self-publishing 11.30 Tour of the works Tickets £15 per person to include 12.15 Sandwich buffet with the supper (with vegetarian option) and opportunity for informal Q & A and a drink. one-to-one advice 13.00 Depart Quiz 7.00 Supper 7.45 You are asked to make your own way More quiz 8.30 to Kiln Farm where you will be met by Results 9.30 one of the Festival team. The address is: Chapter House, Pitfield, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes MK11 3LW

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Frederick Forsyth Rebecca Fraser In Conversation The Mayflower 2.00-3.00pm Fri 15 June Generation Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 3.30-4.30pm Fri 15 June 2b Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 2c We are delighted to welcome thriller writer, spy and investigative journalist Selected by The Times as a History Frederick Forsyth to open the Book of the Year 2017, The Mayflower Festival. At eighteen, Forsyth was the Generation follows the voyage of youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. the pioneering British aboard the At twenty-five, he was a journalist Mayflower and identifies the founding in East Berlin during the Cold War. of Plymouth Colony as one of the Before he turned thirty, he was in seminal events in world history. Africa covering the bloodiest civil But the poorly-equipped group of war. Three years later, broke and out Puritans who crossed the Atlantic in of work, he wrote his game-changing the autumn of 1620 had no sense they first novel, The Day of the Jackal. would pass into legend.

Forsyth has seen some of the most Rebecca Fraser details domestic exhilarating moments of the last life in the seventeenth century, the century from the inside, travelling the histories of brave and vocal Puritan world, once or twice on her majesty’s women and the contradictions secret service. He’s been shot at, between generations as fathers and he’s been arrested, he’s even been sons made the painful decisions which seduced by an undercover agent. determined their and their family’s futures. Discover how this much admired author started his career, the stories behind his novels and learn about his DID YOU KNOW? latest book due out in September. Festival Friends get discounts on tickets. Join us online at www.bucklitfest.org

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Tim Marshall Edward Stourton Tom Bower Divided: Why Auntie’s War: The Rebel Prince: The We’re Living in BBC During the Power, Passion an Age of Walls Second World War and Defiance of 6.30-7.30pm Fri 15 June 5.00-6.00pm Fri 15 June Prince Charles Festival Tent Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 2e 8.00-9.00pm Fri 15 June Tickets £10 2d Festival Tent Broadcaster and Radio 4 Following Prisoners Tickets £10 2f stalwart Edward Stourton of Geography, an delivers a sharp-eyed, wry Few have suffered as international bestseller, and affectionate account of Tim Marshall explores the much humiliation as Prince the BBC’s wartime journey. Charles. Despite his hard divisions caused by wealth, In the pre-television era, work, he has struggled to race, religion and politics. BBC radio played a crucial overcome his unpopularity. The cry ‘Tear down this role as, for the first time, wall’ is losing the argument news of the fighting and Tom Bower, relying on against ‘fortress mentality’, key moments of the war testimony from those close unable to compete with the reached every living room. to the inner sanctum of frightening heights of mass These were the years Clarence House, reveals a migration, the backlash when ‘Auntie’ earned her royal household rife with against globalization, the reputation for bossiness as intrigue. The result is a book resurgence of nationalism, well as reliable purveyor of which uniquely probes into the collapse of Communism truth. But radio also offered and the 9/11 attacks and the character and court of an incomparable tool for the heir to the throne – a their aftermath. These propaganda and a conduit are the faultlines that will view that no one, until now, for coded messages, both has seen. shape our world for years political and personal. to come. Tom Bower is an Well-known for his investigative journalist engaging talks, Marshall noted for his unauthorised is a journalist, author and biographies of many modern broadcaster, known for his and controversial power- analysis of developments brokers including Richard in foreign news and Books can be pre- Branson, Bernie Ecclestone, international diplomacy ordered and bought Mohamed Fayed, Robert and appearing regularly on Maxwell and Tony Blair. the BBC, Sky News and LBC. from The Buckingham Bookshop 01280 820365 Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen - 7 - THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM

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Jasper Winn Anthony Seldon William Sitwell Slow Adventures Will AI Liberate Eggs or Anarchy on Britain’s or Infantilise 11.30-12.30pm Sat 16 June Waterways Humanity? Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 3c 10.00-11.00am Sat 16 June 11.30-12.30pm Sat 16 June Radcliffe Centre Festival Tent William Sitwell tells the extraordinary and gripping Tickets £10 3a Tickets £10 3b tale of how Britain was fed Join Canal and River Trust AI (Artificial Intelligence) during the Second World War. writer-in-residence, Jasper will change our lives more One of Britain’s foremost Winn to explore the history, than we can begin to food writers, Sitwell is a culture and geography imagine. Will it liberate or multi-award-winning writer, of Britain’s waterways. infantilise us? Education editor, critic, TV and radio Spending more than a alone will decide. presenter. In his latest book, year kayaking, cycling and Eggs or Anarchy, he explores boating his way along a There is no more important how Britain fed the nation thousand miles of towpaths issue facing education, or during the shortages of the and canals, Winn met humanity at large, than the Second World War with supply historians, birdwatchers, fast approaching revolution routes under attack from fishermen, campaigners and in AI. This book is a call to the Axis powers: of how the eccentrics. On a fascinating educators everywhere to government persuaded the journey through time open their eyes to what is people to accept rationing and landscape he shares coming. If we do so, then over the temptations of the the history of the ‘water the future will be shaped black market and how food machine’ that created by us in the interests of was kept on the shelves – with the Industrial Revolution, humanity as a whole - but great ingenuity and even a celebrates the genius of if we don’t then it will be little sleight of hand. pioneering engineers and imposed by others. unearths the lives of the people who lived and worked the canals. Enjoy Help us run his illustrated talk with even a canal song or two! the festival and join as a Volunteer. Contact us at [email protected]

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Natasha O’Hear & Antonia Fraser Ben Okri Anthony O’Hear In Conversation Rise Like Lions Picturing the with Anthony - Politics through Apocalypse: The Seldon Poetry 2.30-3.30pm Sat 16 June Book of Revelation 1.00-2.00pm Sat 16 June Radcliffe Centre Festival Tent in the Arts over Tickets £10 Tickets £10 3f Two Millennia 3e The award-winning poet A prolific novelist, and novelist Ben Okri has 11.30-12.30pm Sat 16 June broadcaster, editor and compiled an anthology Old Gaol biographer, Antonia Fraser Tickets £10 of a hundred poems from 3d is probably best known as around the world that the writer who has made celebrate (in the broadest From Armageddon to the history popular. Her new sense) the many voices Antichrist, from the Four book, The King and the of politics, from polemics Horsemen of the Apocalypse Catholics, is the story of to meditations, from to the Whore of Babylon, Catholic Emancipation Shakespeare to Grime. images from the Book of which begins with blood in Revelation have fascinated 1780 and ends some fifty He will be in conversation and inspired artists, writers years later, in a ‘bloodless with Mark Lawson, best and musicians for almost revolution’. A gripping known as a journalist and two thousand years. Yet character-driven narrative broadcaster and also a few people know much history at its very best: it novelist. about either the basic is also a distant mirror meaning or original context of our times, reflecting Ben Okri is a Vice-President of these familiar images. the political issues arising of the English Centre This book fills these gaps from religious intolerance. of International PEN, a in a striking and original Her wide spectrum of member of the board of way. Natasha and Anthony historical subjects ranges the Royal National Theatre, O’Hear show with beautiful from Guy Fawkes to Marie and was awarded an OBE in clarity and sumptuous Antoinette, from Cromwell 2001. He is the author of illustrations how the biblical to Mary Queen of Scots. themes have been taken up Booker Prize-winning novel, not just in art but in music, The Famished Road. film, literature and popular culture.

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Mark Billingham John Dougherty Frances Welch and Belinda Dinosaurs and The Imperial Bauer Dinner-Ladies Tea Party: Criminal Facts 2.30-4.00pm Sat 16 June Family Politics & and Fiction The Library Betrayal Free entry with ticket 3h 2.30-3.30pm Sat 16 June 3.30 for 4.00-5.00pm Festival Tent Following this award- The Woolpack Cote Tickets £10 3g winning author and singer/ Tickets £15 songwriter’s visit last year inc. Cream Tea 3i Bestselling crime novelists as part of our schools Mark Bellingham and outreach programme, we As relations between Belinda Bauer on the real are delighted to welcome Russia and the UK get to a facts that inspire their John back for a riotous 21st century fever pitch, fiction. Mark is one of the afternoon with Dinosaurs it might be time to learn UK’s most popular crime and Dinner Ladies at the from earlier interactions writers whose novels have Buckingham Library. between our two nations. sold over five million copies The Imperial Tea Party worldwide and twice won John’s children’s books chronicles three fraught him the Crime Novel of the include Stinkbomb & meetings between the Year award. His standalone Ketchup Face and There’s British and Russian Royal thriller In the Dark was a Pig Up My Nose and families in the lead up chosen as one of the his performances delight to the demise of the twelve best books of the primary school children Romanovs in 1918. While year by The Times. of all ages. This is a free the courts of King George Belinda’s debut novel, event but booking is V and Tsar Nicholas II dealt Blacklands, earned the essential as tickets are with the sticky niceties of Crime Writers Association limited. seniority, dinner menus, Gold Dagger Award for sore feet and tooth-ache, Crime Novel of the Supported by the Friends revolutionaries on both Year and her novel, of Buckingham Library. sides of the channel busily Rubbernecker, won the plotted their downfall. Theakston Crime Novel of Age 6+ Frances Welch, who has the Year. Snap, her latest written extensively on the crime thriller is published Romanovs, will bring all in May. this drama to life.

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Chris Patten Emma Byrne Craig Brown In Conversation Swearing is Good Ma’am Darling: with John for You: the 99 Glimpses Bercow Amazing Science of Princess of Bad Language Margaret 4.00-5.00pm Sat 16 June Festival Tent 4.00-5.00pm Sat 16 June 5.30-6.30pm Sat 16 June Tickets £10 3j Radcliffe Centre Festival Tent Tickets £10 3k Tickets £10 3l Having been unable, at the last minute, to attend last Can swearing be From our funniest writer, a year, we are delighted to beneficial to our health portrait of our most talked welcome Chris Patten to and wellbeing? Dr Emma about royal. Journalist BuckLitFest this year. Lord Byrne claims it can, Craig Brown writes for just Patten’s political career citing evidence and the about everyone - from took a sharp turn in 1992 fascinating science behind The Daily Mail to The New when he unexpectedly lost swearing. Her new book is York Review of Books - and his parliamentary seat. a spirited and entertaining has created the Private The irrepressible Patten, defence of our most Eye Diary for nearly thirty however, went on to hold cherished dirty words years. a series of prominent backed by cutting-edge His latest focus is an insight public offices – including research. Swearing, it into the Royal Family. the last Governor of Hong turns out, is an incredibly Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses Kong, Chancellor of Oxford useful part of our linguistic of Princess Margaret is a University and Chairman repertoire. It has existed biography teeming with of the BBC. In his latest since the earliest humans the joyous, the ghastly and book, First Confession: A began to communicate and the clinically fascinating. Sort of Memoir, he reflects has been shown to reduce Combining interviews, on his time in these offices pain, help stroke victims parodies, dreams, diaries, and, in exploring his own recover language, and announcements and essays, identity, also examines the encourage teamwork. this is a kaleidoscopic dangers of identity politics. experiment in biography, An extended Q&A session BOOKINGS CAN BE and a witty meditation on hosted by the Speaker, MADE Online: fame and art, snobbery and John Bercow, will follow www.bucklitfest.org deference, bohemia and Lord Patten’s talk. By phone: 01280 820365 high society. In Person: Bookshop and Old Gaol - 13 - BuckinghamBuckingham Literary Literary Festival Festival ThursdayThursdayFri 14 3014 June JuneJune - -Sunday- SunSunday 2 July17 17 June June

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11.30am- Ingram Spark 11.30-12.00pm 2a 12.00pm Offsite visit Natasha O’Hear Anthony Seldon 3b William Sitwell & Anthony 12.00-12.30pm O’Hear

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1.00-1.30pm Antonia Fraser 3e 1.30-2.00pm

2.00-2.30pm Frederick Forsyth 2.30-3.00pm 2b Mark Billingham & Ben Okri 3f Belinda Bauer 3.00-3.30pm John Dougherty

3.30-4.00pm Rebecca Fraser 2c 4.00-4.30pm Emma Byrne 3k Chris Patten Frances Welch 4.30-5.00pm

5.00-5.30pm Tim Marshall 2d 5.30-6.00pm Craig Brown 6.00-6.30pm

6.30-7.00pm 2e Edward Stourton 7.00-7.30pm

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8.00-9.00pm Tom Bower 2f Buckingham Literary Festival Thursday 14 June - Sunday 17 June

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Jasper Winn Andrew Adonis 4a Paula Battle 4b

Natasha O’Hear Anthony Seldon William Sitwell 3c & Anthony 3d The Archers Behind the scenes O’Hear 4c Old Gaol

Antonia Fraser Sunday 8 July OLD MILL HOUSE 5a Gates open for picnics 2.30pm

Mark Billingham & Ben Okri Belinda Bauer 3g 3h John Dougherty Library

Emma Byrne Chris Patten 3j Frances Welch 3i Woolpack Cote

The Castle Theatre Co. Twelfth Night Perf 5.00-7.00pm

Craig Brown 3l

Tickets are available • Online from the Festival Website www.bucklitfest.org • From the University Bookshop, Hunter Street, MK18 1JL | 01280 820365 • From The Old Gaol, Market Square, Buckingham Buckingham MK18 1EG | 01280 822030 Information

Venues 1 The Festival Tent, Beloff Lawn, University of Toilets are available at event venues or, for the Buckingham, Hunter Street. MK18 1EG Festival Tent, at the Tanlaw Mill. All venues are within a 15 minute walk except the 2 The Radcliffe Centre, Church Street, MK18 1BY Old Mill House. 3 The Old Goal, Market Square, MK18 1JL: TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE How to get here: 4 The Library, Verney Close, MK18 1JP By Train – Euston to Milton Keynes and then taxi. By Car – to Hunter Street, Buckingham, MK18 The Villiers Hotel & Restaurant, 3 Castle 5 1EG. Parking is available and free of charge. Street, MK18 1BS Approximate drive times: 6 The Villiers Rooms and Dungeon, Opposite The from Oxford, 45 mins, from London, 1hr 30 mins, Villiers Hotel, 3 Castle Street, MK18 1BS from Birmingham, 1hr 15 mins. By Bus – X5 from Oxford or Cambridge/Milton 7 The Old Mill House, Maids Moreton, MK18 7AR Keynes, X60 from Aylesbury, Bletchley, Bicester. 8 The University Bookshop, Hunter Street, MK18 1EG: TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE Box office: 9 The Tanlaw Mill, Hunter Street, University of Tickets can be purchased up to - and during - the Buckingham, MK18 1EG Festival, subject to availability, from Parking – Island Car Park, University of 10 The Festival Website www.bucklitfest.org Buckingham, Hunter Street, MK18 1EG The University Bookshop, Hunter Street, MK18 1EG, Parking - Cornwalls Meadow, off High Street, 11 01280 820365 | 01280 820399 Buckingham, MK18 1RP The Old Goal, Market Square, MK18 1JL, 12 The Woolpack Cote, Well Street, MK18 1EP 01280 823020

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Andrew Adonis Paula Battle The Archers In Conversation Tame your – Behind The with Anthony Twitter Terrors Scenes Seldon 10.30-11.30am 12.00-1.00pm Sun 17 June 10.30-11.30am Sun 17 June Venue TBA Radcliffe Centre Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 4b Tickets £10 4c Tickets £10 4a Got Twitter sussed or A leading cast member and Andrew Adonis is a Labour do you find it one big a producer/scriptwriter peer. He was the Secretary headache? Know that throw open the studio of State for Transport you need to ‘get social’, door to reveal the inner under Gordon Brown and an but feel too exposed to workings of BBC Radio 4’s education minister before do more than lurk? Want The Archers, the longest that. He was Chair of the some help getting to running drama series in the National Infrastructure grips with the basics and world. Committee from October working towards a tailored Timothy Bentinck has 2015 until late 2017, when ‘content strategy’? Join played the central he resigned in response to our workshop and you’ll be character of David Archer the Government’s handling tweeting like a pro before since 1982. Keri Davies is of the East Coast railway you know it. currently a scriptwriter, crisis and Brexit. Prior In this session, aimed but has served on the to his career in politics at individuals as well as production team in various Andrew worked as a business owners, we’ll roles for a quarter of a journalist at the Financial share handy hints to help century. Times and the Observer and improve your Twitter In conversation with writer as an academic, completing experience. We’ll look and lifelong Archers fan a PhD in History at Oxford at creating ‘thumb- Jane Wenham-Jones, they University. stopping’ content, share will take our guests behind some brilliant (and FREE) the scenes and explain how apps for image and video the programme is created, editing, and give you from initial ideas through Authors will be top-tips on managing and to finished episodes. available to sign maximising your time. There will be plenty of their books after Paula Battle runs digital time for audience questions each session consultancy Battleplan too. Creative.

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Castle Theatre Company

Twelfth Night 5a

Sunday 8 July Gates open 2.30 pm for parking and picnicking Performance 5.00-7.00pm Old Mill House, Maids Moreton, MK18 7AR Tickets £15 Adult £5 Child

After their sparkling performance last year, the Durham Castle Theatre Company returns to Robert and Carolyn Cumming’s delightful gardens at the Old Mill House beside the Great Ouse to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. For over 30 years Castle Theatre Company (CTC) has taken its annual summer Shakespeare tour to the south of England and the USA, performing classic comedies on the lawns of stately homes, gardens and abbeys. Renowned for their high-standard and original and entertaining interpretation, CTC promises an afternoon of light-hearted family entertainment. Running time approximately 2 hours with an interval of 20 minutes.

- 19 - THE BUCKINGHAM FESTIVAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION 13-14 JUNE 2018 The sector’s most influential figures will be speaking and taking part in debates and panel sessions on the most important issues facing the ever-changing landscape of education. Whether you are in higher education, teaching, governance, journalism, or are a student, the Festival of Higher Education has much to offer you.

2018 SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Sir Anthony Seldon - Vice-Chancellor, University of Buckingham Mary Curnock Cook - Independent educationalist and former UCAS CEO Amanda Spielman - HM Chief Inspector of Education, Ofsted Sir Michael Barber - Chair, Office for Students (OfS) EVERYONE WELCOME Lord Andrew Adonis - Labour peer and author TO ATTEND Claire Fox - Director, Academy of Ideas Clare Marchant - Chief Executive, UCAS ONE-DAY PRICE ~ £60 Shakira Martin - President of the NUS FULL PRICE ~ £95

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Meeting an author in person is a powerful way to enthuse youngsters and inspire them to explore the world of books and reading. By offering a programme of high-impact, dynamic events with amazing authors and performers, BuckLitFest aims to help create lifelong readers - and hopefully some successful, new writers, too!

Following last year’s pilot partnerships with the George Grenville Academy and the Royal Latin School, we’re delighted to be able to expand our activity with schools thanks to the support of our new sponsors and ‘local heroes’.

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Entertaining and educating with their own Durham University’s dynamic young players brand of zany humour Really Big Pants is a deliver highly physical and interactive theatre company specifically for primary- workshops animating the language and aged children. Using recognisable elements plot of Shakespeare’s plays - and liberating of traditional tales (and some really the inner actor in every student. Best big pants) they inspire, celebrate and experienced in the open air - whatever the encourage literacy and have performed to weather! thousands of children in schools, libraries, bookshops, theatres and at litfests.

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Her first novel, Ante’s Inferno, scooped Award-winning, beetle-loving Maya the Children’s People’s Book Prize. Now Leonard will be wowing children with the in The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst final part of her bestselling trilogy, Battle Griselda offers a wonderfully dark tale of of the Beetles - and talking all things mystery, magic, demons and faustian pacts beetle just in time for National Insect as an Elizabethan diary comes to life. Week (18-24 June). Refreshingly original fantasy guaranteed to enthral and inspire Young Adult readers. ‘Truly great storytelling.’ - Michael Morpurgo

Schools taking part in 2018: • Bourton Meadow Academy • George Grenville Academy • The Buckingham School • Sir Thomas Fremantle School • St James & St John • Thornton College

Please note: the schools events are not open to the general public. If you would like an author or speaker to visit your school in future, please email [email protected] and we’ll be in touch. And if you would like to support the Schools Outreach programme financially, please contact Vivienne or Chloe at: [email protected] or [email protected] www.bucklitfest.org

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Buy your tickets and pre-order your books for all the Festival authors 01280 820365 9–24 June 2018 Over 500 artists and makers in over 200 venues in the County’s largest visual arts event. Pick up a free directory from local Tourist Information Centres, libraries and participating venues.

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Buckingham Old Gaol Trust maintains the iconic 18th century building in the heart of Buckingham, and manage the Museum contained within. Run entirely by volunteers and dependent on entry fees and donations for its maintenance and running costs, the Museum’s former prison cells now trace the history of our town and the surrounding area, from prehistoric times to the end of the 19th century. Exhibits also include some of the famous Lenborough Hoard coins that were minted in the town. The Trust also hosts occasional exhibitions in the former Exercise Yard (now no longer open to the elements), which is also available for hire for business functions, meetings, private parties etc.

The Old Gaol also houses the town Tourist Information Centre, now managed by Buckingham Town Council. This is a popular point of call for visitors to the town, providing as it does a range of services including bus timetables, National Express bookings, details of local and nearby attractions and a range of locally-sourced gifts.

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