LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL THINKS REVOLUTION! 22Nd – 29Th September 2018

www.lincolndrillhall.com Tickets from www.lincolnbookfestival.org LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL THINKS REVOLUTION! 22nd – 29th September 2018 FEATURING Maggie Andrews Michael Morpurgo Tracy Borman Marc Mulholland Marcus Chown Sally Nicholls Rebecca Fraser John Robb 2018 Janis Lomas Jane Robinson /LincolnBookFestivalUK @LincBookFest Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd September 2018 22nd Sept - 7pm | 23rd Sept - 1.30pm at the Drill Hall PRIVATE PEACEFUL he festival kicks off with Simon Reade’s brilliant adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book, PRIVATE PEACEFUL. Direct from London's West End, the production tells the story of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young World War One solider awaiting the firing squad at dawn. Suitable for ages 8+ Monday 24th September 2018 6.15pm at The Collection Kindly F ESTIVAL sponsored by LAUNCH PARTY Announcement of WINNERS of the 2018 FLASH FICTION COMPETITION – just 50 words on the theme of revolution! FIRST STORY THE LAUNCH OF GUEST SPEAKER SHOWCASE WORDSMITH SALLY NICHOLLS First Story brings professional In association with First Story, Sally Nicholls is the award writers into secondary schools we launch WORDSMITH, winning author of THINGS A in low-income communities a competition to find BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO – on to foster creativity and Lincolnshire’s young poet reading, writing, inspiration communication skills. Students laureate! and imagination. following the programme in a Lincoln school will read from their work. WORDSM TH September22nd – 29th2018 Tuesday 25th September 2018 6.15pm at The Collection PRIVATE EXPLOSIVE NEW WORLDS PEACEFUL MARCUS CHOWN arcus writes about some pretty crazy ideas: Can time run backwards? Is there an infinity of universes playing out all possible histories? Was our universe a DIY experiment by extra-terrestrials in another universe? His award-winning THE ASCENT OF GRAVITY (Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017) explains why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding time and the origin of the universe. In his latest book, BIG BANG, he takes us back to the first and biggest revolution of all. Marcus is Kindly sponsored by cosmology consultant of New Scientist and a former radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology. He has done stand-up comedy and was a regular guest on the BBC4 comedy-science show, It’s Only A Theory, with Andy Hamilton and Reginald D Hunter, and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch. REBECCA FRASER ebecca is a writer and broadcaster, former chair of the Brontë Society and author of a stunning biography of Charlotte Brontë, and of A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF BRITAIN. In THE MAYFLOWER GENERATION she tells the epic story of one family’s flight from England, the background to why they left, the new life they forged in America and the tender relationship at the heart of Thanksgiving. She offers a new perspective on a classic story by showing the very human people behind what has become a part of the founding of America: details of domestic life in 17th century, histories of brave and vocal Puritan women and the sometimes violent contradictions between the beliefs of fathers and sons as they made the painful decisions which determined their future in America. Photo by Jan Wright. Kindly sponsored by Wednesday 26th September 2018 6.15pm at The Drill Hall AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL MORPURGO MICHAEL MORPURGO pparently Michael Morpurgo writes sitting up in bed, likes listening to Mozart and eating prawns but he has also revolutionised the lives of thousands both through his books and the charity, Farms for City Children, which he and his wife started in 1976. A multi-award winning author, poet, playwright and librettist, he has written over 100 books, mainly for children, was Children’s Laureate in 2003 and has been awarded an OBE. The triumph of a child or outsider and the relationships between old and young characters or with nature are recurring themes of his stories. His latest books IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF and FLAMINGO BOY both have a wartime backdrop. Thursday 27th September 2018 4pm at The Drill Hall SISTERS OF THE FREE REVOLUTION EVENT STEPHEN GILLARD omen’s football was already established before 1914 but it really took off during the War when men were sent to fight on the front line and back home women took on traditional male jobs. But they also took on their positions on the football pitch. The public loved it but not everyone was happy and in in 1918 the FA banned women from playing in stadiums. Stephen talks about his research and the Lincolnshire ladies who defied the ban, as well as offering a taster of the Lincoln Mystery Players Trust's play The World at Her Feet, which will be shown as part of the Arrmistice centenary events in November. September22nd – 29th2018 Kindly SISTERS OF THE sponsored by REVOLUTION 6.15pm at the Collection MAGGIE ANDREWS & JANIS LOMAS aggie and Janis take a sideways look at the developing role of women in society: what are the objects that symbolise their journey from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are the objects that oppress women even now? THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN 100 OBJECTS documents the inanimate objects that have changed their lives, from the corset to the contraceptive pill, the bones of the first woman to Rosa Parks’s mugshot and the iconic Mary Quant cape. Maggie is Professor of Cultural History at Worcester University. Janis is a founding member of the Women’s History Network. JANE ROBINSON ane is a social historian specialising in the study of women pioneers. HEARTS AND MINDS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE AND HOW WOMEN WON THE VOTE tells the story of the suffragists: the non-militant campaigners for the vote. They were rich and poor, young and old, they defied convention, risked jobs, family relationships and even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them. Eventually they joined forces on an astonishing six-week protest march they called the Great Pilgrimage. By turns dangerous, exhausting and exhilarating, the Great Pilgrimage transformed the personal and political lives of women in Britain for ever. HEARTS AND MINDS was featured on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week. Jane lives in London but her forebears were printers in Lincolnshire! Photo by Richard James. Kindly sponsored by Friday 28th September 2018 6.15pm at The Collection ANARCHY! JOHN ROBB ohn grew up in Blackpool before punk rock saved his life. He is many-faceted: he still tours with post-punk mainstays The Membranes and Goldblade; he was the first journalist to interview Nirvana and he famously coined the expression Britpop. His books include the official biography of the Stone Roses and PUNK ROCK: AN ORAL HISTORY which lifts the lid on punk, in all its vibrant glory, drawing on more than 100 interviews to chart the radical movement which exploded in Seventies Britain. John writes for several national newspapers, lectures, appears on TV, is a political campaigner and a talking head on punk, zen, the universe and veganism. He may talk about some or all of these things! MARC MULHOLLAND arc's special interest is in the history of political thought since the French Revolution, so who better to follow the young revolutionary Emmanuel Barthélemy from the barricades of Paris to the English fireside of Karl Marx. A thrilling portrait of the dark underworld of conspiracy, insurrection and fatal idealism, THE MURDERER OF WARREN STREET: TRUE STORY OF A 19TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONARY is 'a Victorian whodunit... swashbuckling adventure and political thriller… a magnificent book' (Francis Wheen, The Oldie). Marc grew up in a forest in Co Antrim during the Troubles; he is now a Professor of Modern History at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. His previous books are a biography of Terence O’Neill and BOURGEOIS LIBERTY AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR. FREE OPEN HOUSE EVENT POETRY EVENING 8pm at at Oxfam Books & Music in Cornhill Square With guest poet Kate Foley, an evening of open mic inspiration and exploration in the atmospheric surroundings of the Oxfam bookshop. Whether you’re into soulful sonnets, harmonic haiku, flamboyant free-verse or your own unique style, take your own poetic creations or just go and to listen. Refreshments available for a small donation. September22nd – 29th2018 Friday 28th & Saturday 29th September 2018 11.30am & 2pm at the Drill Hall (Both dates) STICK MAN ntertainment for all the family with Stamp Theatre's delightful stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's much loved children's book STICK MAN. Suitable for ages 3+ Saturday 29th September 2018 10am-12.00 noon at The Collection FREE LOCAL HISTORY EVENT MORNING There will be book stalls in the atrium from 10.00 by Lincoln Record Society, Survey of Lincoln, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Lindum Books. Book signings at 12.00 noon. 10.00am - Welcome by Carol Bennett 11.05am - Antony Lee Pursuing the 10.05am - Peter Worsley The Darwin Farms: Pomerium: the Sacred Boundary of Roman the Lincolnshire Estates of Charles and Erasmus Lincoln (Roman Lincoln article, SLHA Darwin and their Family Journal 49) 10.30am - Richard Olney Farming & Society in 11.30am - Emma Lingard, Grimsby Streets N. Lincs: the Dixons of Holton-le-Moor, 1741–1906 Kindly sponsored by GUNPOWDER, TREASON & PLOT 6.15pm at the Drill Hall TRACY BORMAN racy is Lincolnshire born and bred and well known for her non-fiction (including ELIZABETH’S WOMEN, MATILDA: QUEEN OF THE CONQUEROR and THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE TUDORS). Now she takes us back to the Jacobean era with her debut novel, THE KING'S WITCH, about religious tensions and the fatal outcome of the Gunpowder Plot.

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