WIMPOLE HISTORY FESTIVAL 20–23 June 2019 Escape to Wimpole and Enjoy a Glorious Feast of History, Heritage and Hospitality

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WIMPOLE HISTORY FESTIVAL 20–23 June 2019 Escape to Wimpole and enjoy a glorious feast of history, heritage and hospitality.

Speakers include: Antony Beevor Melvyn Bragg Michael Morpurgo Neil Oliver Rachel Reeves Sally Wainwright Lucy Worsley

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Welcome to Wimpole History Festival 2019 – with an even wider programme and an additional At Rathbones we’ve been building marquee specifically for children's events. We are also hugely excited to launch our very first successful relationships and providing Schools’ Day for pupils and teachers throughout the region. high-quality discretionary investment Come and explore the idyllic parkland of the Wimpole Estate and sample our glorious feast of management services to individuals, history, heritage and hospitality. See, smell, touch and taste the hidden stories of the past with our interactive ‘living history’ displays, falconry, sword school and archery. Enjoy exclusive charities and advisers for generations. walking tours specially curated for the Festival, marvel at a World War Two Spitfire in the skies, or drop into the Scything Festival for a flavour of authentic agricultural experience. With help from leading historians, broadcasters and writers you can time-travel through a For further information, please veritable almanac of different periods and significant moments of history. We will be marking the contact or email centenaries of the Peterloo Massacre and the first elected female MP, 80 years since the start of [email protected] World War Two and 70 years since the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, and will celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria. For children, there is a full-to-bursting programme of events headlined by Lucy Worsley on Lady Mary and Michael Morpurgo, whose reading and performance of The Mozart Question is sure to be a festival highlight. Join us and escape to Wimpole for the weekend – we look forward to seeing you there. Cathy Moore, Festival Director

NEW for 2019 – Shuttle Bus from Cambridge There will be a shuttle bus running between Cambridge and Wimpole from 9am to 9pm on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June. Pick-up is from Queens Road and the timetable can be found on the festival website. Places are strictly limited and tickets must be booked in advance for outward and return trips. Bookings should be made at the box office at the time of ticket purchase: cambridgelivetrust.co.uk 01223 357851

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Attractions and things to do on Saturday and Sunday

Living History World War Two Spitfire Scything Festival Display Field | Free Flypasts The Avenue | Free History comes to life at Wimpole with re-enactors from all ages and eras. Visit the Display Free This year, the Scything Festival will be Field to learn about the past with hands-on history demonstrations and workshops, including For aviation enthusiasts! We will be held in the parkland to the south of the a Celtic and Romano daily life and warrior display, medieval cooking displays, a duelling treated to the most famous plane of mansion. It’s a fun and sociable weekend display, a recreated Victorian travel museum, talks on World War Two, and much more. World War Two – a Spitfire will fly over with several competitions. The Wimpole the grounds of Wimpole Hall on the Countryside team and Estate Greenwood Saturday and Sunday of the festival group will showcase their traditional weekend. woodworking skills and demonstrate a variety of other historic rural crafts, including blacksmithing.

To find out more or book a place please visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wimpole- estate

Archery Guided Tours Sword School Falconry The Paddocks | £7 | Ages 5+ Free | All ages The Paddocks | £7 | Ages 8-16 The Paddocks | £7 | Ages 5+ For those who fancy themselves sharp- New guided tours of the Farm and Walled Learn how to fight like a medieval knight Calling all young falconers! Learn about the shooters, put it to the test at archery. Garden, specially created for the Wimpole and test your skills at Wimpole's very history of falconry and have a go at handling Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow like History Festival and focussing on newly own sword school. There will be six these magnificent birds with the Fens Falconry a medieval fighter, as well as the history researched areas of Wimpole’s history. There 30-minute sessions throughout the experts. There will be three 30-minute behind this weapon at our archery site. will also be historically-themed guided walks in day. sessions throughout the day. Tickets can be bought at the archery site, the parkland. Sessions can be booked in advance via the Sessions can be booked in advance via the cash only. Various times throughout the weekend Box Office. Places are strictly limited. Box Office. Places are strictly limited.

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Event Times Venue Page Children’s Programme events Friday 21 June Edward Stourton 2-3pm East Lawn Marquee 8 Andrew Roberts 3:30-4:30pm East Lawn Marquee 8 Stella Tillyard & Madeleine Bunting 3:30-4:30pm Rathbones Marquee 9 Sam Willis & James Daybell 5-6pm East Lawn Marquee 9 Sonia Purnell & Francelle Bradford White 5-6pm Rathbones Marquee 9 Sally Wainwright & Anne Choma 7-8pm East Lawn Marquee 10 Piers Brendon 7-8pm Rathbones Marquee 10 Saturday 22 June Archery Various times The Paddocks 4 Sword School Various times The Paddocks 5 Falconry Various times The Paddocks 5 Caroline Lawrence 10:30-11:30am East Lawn Marquee 25 Rachel Reeves & Micky Astor 10:30-11:30am Rathbones Marquee 12 Marcia Williams 10:30-11:30am RG Carter Family Marquee 25 Gary Enstone 10:30-11:30am Grand Dining Room 12 Lucy Worsley – Lady Mary 12-1pm East Lawn Marquee 25 Jacqueline Riding 12-1pm Rathbones Marquee 12 Adam Frost 12-1pm RG Carter Family Marquee 26 Jerzy Kiercuk-Belinski 12-1pm Grand Dining Room 13 Robert Hardman 1:30-2:30pm East Lawn Marquee 13 Roland Philipps & Gill Bennett 1:30-2:30pm Rathbones Marquee 13 Anthea Simmons 1:30-2:30pm RG Carter Family Marquee 26 Oonagh Kennedy 1:30-2:30pm Grand Dining Room 14 Lucy Worsley – Victoria 3-4pm East Lawn Marquee 14 Giles Milton & David Kenyon 3-4pm Rathbones Marquee 14 Miriam Halahmy 3-4pm RG Carter Family Marquee 26 James Grasby 3-4pm Grand Dining Room 15 Michael Morpurgo – The Mozart Question 4:45-6pm East Lawn Marquee 15 Shrabani Basu & Kavita Puri 4:30-5:30pm Rathbones Marquee 16 Curious Science Quest 4:30-5:30pm RG Carter Family Marquee 27 John Orna-Ornstein 4:30-5:30pm Grand Dining Room 16 Nina Caplan 6-7pm Rathbones Marquee 16 William Schabas 6-7pm Grand Dining Room 17 Antony Beevor 6:30-7:30pm East Lawn Marquee 17 Sunday 23 June Archery Various times The Paddocks 4 Sword School Various times The Paddocks 5 Falconry Various times The Paddocks 5 Michael Morpurgo – Flamingo Boy 10:30-11:30am East Lawn Marquee 28 Julia Lovell & Jeanne-Marie Gescher 10:30-11:30am Rathbones Marquee 19 History Off the Page 10:30-11:15am RG Carter Family Marquee 28 David Pearson 10:30-11:30am Grand Dining Room 19 Hallie Rubenhold 12-1pm East Lawn Marquee 19 Joyce Dunbar & James Mayhew 12-1pm Rathbones Marquee 28 David Long 12-1pm RG Carter Family Marquee 29 Angus Wainwright 12-1pm Grand Dining Room 20 Melvyn Bragg 1:30-2:30pm East Lawn Marquee 20 Clare Mulley 1:30-2:30pm Rathbones Marquee 20 History Off the Page 1:30-2:15pm RG Carter Family Marquee 28 Ian Wright 1:30-2:30pm Grand Dining Room 21 Neil Oliver 3-4pm East Lawn Marquee 21 Natalie Haynes 3-4pm Rathbones Marquee 21 Shannon Hogan 3-4pm Grand Dining Room 22 Isabel Thomas 3-4pm RG Carter Family Marquee 29 Bart van Es 4:30-5:30pm East Lawn Marquee 22 Colin Grant & Clair Wills 4:30-5:30pm Rathbones Marquee 22 Callum Weir 4:30-5:30pm Grand Dining Room 23 Philip Ardagh 4:30-5:30pm RG Carter Family Marquee 29 Jonathan Freedland 6-7pm East Lawn Marquee 23 Francis Pryor 6-7pm Rathbones Marquee 23

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Edward Stourton Stella Tillyard & Madeleine Bunting Auntie’s War: The BBC During the Second Novel Histories World War 3.30-4.30pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 2-3pm | East Lawn Marquee | £10/£8 The draining of the Fens in the 1640s by Dutch engineers is BBC veteran Edward Stourton brings a new perspective to among the most controversial civil engineering achievements this uniquely British institution, in a colourful portrayal of of pre-industrial Europe and a ruthless imposition on local radio’s essential role in wartime Britain. Today we have the Fenlanders. The German wartime occupation of the Channel internet: in the 1940s we had the wireless. Join us to hear Islands also fractured communities and spawned complex how from Chamberlain to Churchill, the Blitz to the D-Day allegiances. Come and hear Stella Tillyard (The Great Level) landings, ‘Auntie’ was a crucial lifeline of communication, and Madeleine Bunting (Island Song) discuss how their novels explore these pivotal moments of history and the shaping how we saw these defining moments of world history. alchemical process of turning historical fact into compelling In conversation with Sian Kevill, former Editor of the BBC’s fiction. Newsnight and Director of Make Waves – making films that In conversation with Alex Clark, journalist, critic and have social impact broadcaster

Andrew Roberts Sam Willis & James Daybell Churchill: Walking With Destiny Histories of the unexpected 3.30-4.30pm | East Lawn Marquee | £10/£8 5-6pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 A towering figure of 20th-century history, Join Sam Willis, presenter of the BBC’s The Silk Road and Winston Churchill was polled as ‘Greatest Invasion! and Professor James Daybell for an exciting new Briton’ in 2002. In his brilliant biography of history show that will change the way you think about the past… the wartime prime minister and world- and the present. Based on their chart-topping podcast, Histories famous cigar smoker, historian Andrew of the Unexpected LIVE demonstrates how even the most Roberts draws on over 40 new sources, unexpected of subjects has a history and how those subjects link including the diaries of George VI, creating together in unexpected ways. Find out what links together the an intimate portrait of a complex man whose Titanic, Pompeii, Neolithic cave painting, Victorian perfumes, capacity for hard work was equalled by his electrical experiments on the human face, Glaswegian gangs, capacity for drink, whose humour and gift for Shakespeare, chimneys, shoes and gloves! friendship were legendary, and whose principled convictions abide. ‘History as you’ve never seen it before.’ Dan Snow With thanks to the Sonia Purnell & Francelle Bradford White Women in the Resistance 5-6pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 Female courage behind enemy lines continues to astonish, 70 years after the Second World War ended. Francelle Bradford White (Andrée’s War) joins us to discuss her mother Andrée Griotteray, an underground intelligence courier for the Resistance from the fall of Paris to the Liberation. Sonia Purnell’s tale of panache and derring-do (A Woman of No Importance) is worthy of John Buchan. Virginia Hall, American-turned-British spy, overcame the loss of a leg and became the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied agent. Ordinary women, extraordinary stories. Joined in conversation by writer Clare Mulley, whose book The Spy Who Loved tells the story of secret agent Christine Granville.

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Sally Wainwright & Anne Choma Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) at Madingley Hall Gentleman Jack: The Life and Times of Anne Lister 7-8pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 History courses at Cambridge In a rare appearance, writer and director Sally Wainwright (creator of Last Tango in Halifax, Happy Valley and Scott and Bailey) joins Anne Choma, author of Gentleman Jack, to discuss bringing this true story to the screen. Charismatic and fearless, Gentleman Jack was the nickname of Anne Lister, a 19th-century Yorkshire landowner. Lister has been described as the ‘first modern lesbian’ whose coded diaries reveal numerous erotic encounters with other women. Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones as Lister, airs on BBC TV this spring. Chaired by Alex Clark, journalist, critic and broadcaster If the Wimpole History Festival piques your interest and you are curious to nd out more about this intriguing subject, why not join our community of learners at the University of Cambridge? We run a number of History courses, from short and online courses to part- time University quali cations. To nd the full list of courses, visit our Sally Wainwright website. www.ice.cam.ac.uk/Wimpole Piers Brendon Churchill’s Bestiary: His Life Through Undergraduate Certi cate in History - new for 2019 Apply by Animals www.ice.cam.ac.uk/history-cert | Dr Sam Williams 2 September 7-8pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 Winston Churchill is one of the most multi-faceted figures of recent history. From powerbroker to prime minister, he also Undergraduate Certi cate in Local History Apply by had a lifelong love of animals, including not just the usual www.ice.cam.ac.uk/local-history-cert | Dr Andrew Lacey 2 September household pets but his own lion and leopard, and a budgerigar which drank out of his whisky glass. Piers Brendon, renowned historian of Europe and Empire and the Master of Studies Degree in History Apply by former Keeper of the Churchill Archives, has mined www.ice.cam.ac.uk/mst-history | Dr Sam Williams 28 March significant unpublished material to reveal another aspect of Churchill’s maverick genius. Sure to be compelling.

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Rachel Reeves & Micky Astor Jerzy Kiercuk-Belinski 100 Years of Women in Parliament Sir John Soane 10.30-11.30am | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 12-1pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 In 1919, Nancy Astor was elected the first female Member Sir John Soane is seen as one of the most innovative of Parliament, a year after some but not all women in architects that this country produced. He is best known England were given the vote. In the century since, 489 today for his masterpieces the Bank of England (now sadly women have been elected to Parliament, Britain has had two vandalised) and Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as his work woman prime ministers, and female MPs have made gender on numerous country houses, such as Wimpole Hall itself. equality part of mainstream legislation. Rachel Reeves MP He was also one of the greatest collectors of his time, and discusses Nancy Astor’s legacy and the remarkable history Jerzy Kiercuk-Belinski will discuss how, within the walls of of women in Parliament with Astor’s grandson Micky Astor his other great masterpiece, his home at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn and journalist Melissa Benn. Fields, he created an extraordinary ‘Grand Tour’ of the ancient and modern worlds through the ‘union of architecture, painting and sculpture’..

Gary Enstone Robert Hardman Rudyard Kipling – His Remarkable Tale Queen of the World 10.30-11.30am | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 1.30-2.30pm | East Lawn Marquee | £10/£8 Rudyard Kipling is a seminal name in British literature – a name At her coronation in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II committed to that drips with the age of Empire and exotic, ripping-yarn, serve the Commonwealth, her much loved ‘family of adventure stories. However, Kipling’s own life and that of his nations’. At 93 she remains a formidable force. Based on family is just as fantastical, and Gary Enstone, House and exclusive access to the Queen’s staff and family, Royal Collections Manager for Bateman’s, will explore the life of the commentator Robert Hardman discloses stories from man who brought us such tales as Kim, Puck of Pook’s Hill and international tours and state visits, revealing the monarch’s The Jungle Book. famous unflappability in any eventuality, from the gift of a baby crocodile to the handling of ‘dictator guests from hell’ such as Idi Amin and Nicolae Ceausescu. Jacqueline Riding Peterloo: History of an Uprising 12-1pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 On the morning of 16 August 1819 at St Peter’s Field, Roland Philipps & Gill Bennett Manchester, 60,000 working men, women, and children Spies Like Us: International Subversion and gathered to peacefully protest in the cause of parliamentary reform. By day’s end, over 650 had been injured and 18 killed Fake News as panicked troops tried to disperse the crowd – the 1.30-2.30pm | Rathbones Marquee | £12/£10 bloodiest clash in British political history. Jacqueline Riding, Spies are expert at disseminating propaganda, and when the adviser on Mike Leigh’s epic film of the same name, argues Zinoviev letter, an almost-certain forgery, was leaked to the that Perterloo’s shocking events 200 years ago were Daily Mail just before the 1924 General Election, conspiracy instrumental in the battle for UK political reform. theories abounded, which, according to author Gill Bennett, still reverberate in our era of fake news. Join Gill in conversation with ‘At Waterloo there was man to man, but at Manchester it was Roland Philipps, whose new biography of Donald Maclean is an downright murder.’ exhilarating take on this brilliant undergraduate, star diplomat, establishment insider and Soviet spy – the most enigmatic member of the Cambridge spy ring. Chaired by Bridget Kendall, festival patron, Master of Peterhouse and former BBC correspondent in Moscow

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Oonagh Kennedy James Grasby When in Rome: William Waldorf Astor and Silent Witnesses: How Houses and his European Obsessions Collections Speak About Their Celebrity 1.30-2.30pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 Owners William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919) ranked among the elite 3-4pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 of America’s Gilded Age. Yet this titan of finance famously National Trust curator James Grasby discusses what celebrities’ abandoned the United States to make his home in England in houses in the care of the National Trust reveal about their 1890. While he was the U.S. minister in Rome, he had occupants. Why did Thomas Hardy want his birthplace immersed himself in European culture. Buying Cliveden in surrounded by trees while Edward Elgar encouraged tours of his 1893, he created a splendid house museum filled with some humble birthplace? George Bernard Shaw and William Morris’s of the finest examples of European Art. Through this lens, bedroom arrangements share marital secrets (would you delight we look at the man and his collection. in the idea of opening your bedroom to tourists?), while the Marquis of Anglesey’s prosthetic leg, now an unexpected exhibition centrepiece, gives clues to the wearer’s passion for Lucy Worsley dancing. Victoria: Celebrating her Bicentenary 3-4pm | East Lawn Marquee | £14/£10 Michael Morpurgo From dancing princess to Widow of Windsor, the long reign The Mozart Question: of Queen Victoria is synonymous with one of the most A Performance exceptional eras in British history. When young she relied on With Music Prime Minister Lord Melbourne for guidance: upon marriage to Prince Albert she often submitted to his influence. As 4.45-6pm | East Lawn Marquee bestselling historian Lucy Worsley explains, Victoria’s £15/£9 obsession with Albert and grief at his early death led to her Michael Morpurgo’s The Mozart emotional neglect of their children, yet her reputation as Question tells the story of Paolo matriarch and monarch endures. Levi, a world-famous performer who developed his passion for music as a young child with the help of his Giles Milton & David Kenyon teacher, Benjamin. Alongside this D-Day: Untold Stories of the Success of the story is that of his parents who were both musicians too – Jewish prisoners surviving Normandy campaign by playing music in a concentration camp 3-4pm | Rathbones Marquee | £12/£10 during the Second World War. Treated with The codebreakers of Bletchley Park have another secret to utmost sensitivity for a family audience, The reveal. Bletchley was the centre of preparations for the Mozart Question is a story of friendship and Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944. D-Day saw the greatest family, truth and secrets – interwoven by the seaborne invasion in history but also ‘the longest day’ for power of culture and music. those involved – from Allied conscript to German soldier and Suitable for audiences from 8 years French resistance fighter. Bletchley Park research historian old, this unique performance of the David Kenyon and bestselling author Giles Milton discuss story, narrated by Michael Morpurgo these human stories and previously classified documents and directed by Simon Reade, is behind Allied success on Normandy’s beaches. beautifully enhanced and Chaired by David Reynolds, festival patron, and Professor of embellished with extracts from International History, University of Cambridge music by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach With thanks to and Vivaldi. Featuring Daniel Pioro on violin and string quartet The Storyteller’s Ensemble.

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Shrabani Basu & Kavita Puri William Schabas India: From Victoria to Partition The Trial of the Kaiser 4.30-5.30pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 6-7pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 In 1887 young Indian Muslim Abdul Karim became personal A fascinating and thrilling account of Kaiser Wilhelm II who, attendant to the ageing Queen Victoria, Empress of India – as the First World War drew to an end, quietly crossed into a powerful, controversial role at the heart of Empire when neutral Holland seeking asylum. The Allies agreed to put him Indian demands for independence were accelerating. In on trial charged with the ‘supreme offence against 1947, Victoria’s ‘Jewel in the Crown’ was divided through international morality’. Professor Schabas sheds light on the the violence of Partition, with millions finding themselves events surrounding this ‘most important international trial suddenly on the wrong side, a trauma still affecting many that never was’ and the attempts made, including a daring British South Asians today. Authors and journalists Shrabani attempt to kidnap the Kaiser by a rogue American unit, to Basu and Kavita Puri discuss the repercussions of these bring him to justice and to define the concept of war crimes. decisive moments in India’s history. Chaired by Piers Brendon, historian, author and former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre

John Orna-Ornstein The Country House is Dead, Long Live the Country House! 4.30-5.30pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 The National Trust cares for more than 350 country houses, ranging from estates like Wimpole and Hardwick Hall to the more modest homes of 19th century writers and scientists. What is the future for these houses, as they move ever further from being homes? Are they museums, or can they be something more – even, in the words of one visitor, ‘the people’s estate’? © JOHN MILLAR JOHN ©

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The Wandering Vine FRY JOHN © 6-7pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 Antony Beevor Join the New Statesman’s wine columnist Nina Caplan for an intoxicating wander into the past via the vineyards Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges 1944 of Europe. Taking in Champagne’s ancient chalk and the 6.30-7.30pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 crumbling Roman ruins which flank the Rhône and A ‘heroic failure’ immortalised in the classic film A Bridge Too meeting the winemakers along the way, whilst also Far, Operation Market Garden saw the Allies attempt to learning how, for Nina, wine summons memory and the capture nine bridges across the German-occupied Netherlands meaning of home. in late 1944. The story of arrogance and bad planning is a familiar one – but in Antony Beevor’s typically forensic and ‘The Wandering Vine has depth and soul.’ The Spectator dramatic retelling, we see the grim reality of this failed gamble – the terrible reprisals the Germans later meted out against the local Dutch population. ‘I am drunk with her knowledge.’ Maureen Lipman Introduced by David Reynolds, festival patron, and Professor of International History, University of Cambridge

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History Julia Lovell & Jeanne-Marie Gescher China today: Mao’s legacy Highlights 10.30-11.30am | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 Seventy years after the founding of Communist China, Mao

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JONATHAN FENNELL THE 1 975 R EFEREN DU M A ND SE VEN TIE S B RITAIN Birkbeck College, London (Maoism), and Jeanne-Marie Gescher, “Bursting with “A triumph of “This exhaustively “A jaw-dislocating “One of the one of the world's leading advisors on China (Becoming China), fresh insights into multi-national researched and page-turner. If greatest books for a conversation about how the legacies of Mao and the Mao era the relationship research” skillfully presented you care about in social studies are very live issues for contemporary China and the world. between people Peter Stanley book recasts passive contemporary published in the and landscapes.” heiresses as active politics, you really postwar years” Introduced by David Reynolds, festival patron, and Professor Angus Winchester wives” need to read it” John A. Hall of International History, University of Cambridge Cynthia Herrup Andrew Marr

20% discount on books in store with this programme David Pearson or quote the code CUP_WIMPOLE19 for telephone orders 1 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1SZ Books and Libraries at the National Trust Valid until 31/7/19 01223 333333 [email protected] 10.30-11.30am | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 The National Trust’s houses contain over 200 libraries and around half a million books, with some dating back to the fifteenth century. Are they still important in the internet age? Do they have value beyond looking nice on shelves? David Pearson, lecturer in book history and former Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries for the City of London, will use illustrations to answer these questions by looking beyond printed words to appreciate the individual histories of the books themselves.

Hallie Rubenhold The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 12-1pm | East Lawn Marquee | £10/£8 Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane hailed from Holborn, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. Study They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, dodged people traffickers. They never met, though all experienced hardship in murky late-Victorian London. What they had in common was death: all were murdered in 1888 in Whitechapel by an Historwith Oxfordy unknown serial killer. With documentary skill, historian Hallie • Part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes • Online courses Rubenhold gives the five their voices back in a devastating • Weekend lectures • Lecture series • Weekly classes • Summer schools narrative and landmark study of a time and place. In conversation with Clare Mulley, festival patron, historian and @OxfordConted www.conted.ox.ac.uk/history2019 author

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Sunday 23 June – Talks, debates and performances Sunday 23 June – Talks, debates and performances

Angus Wainwright Ian Wright The History of Wimpole Park Gardens: Living Works of Art 12-1pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 1.30-2.30pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 Angus Wainwright is one of the National Trust’s Ian is a Garden Adviser for the National Trust, providing Archaeologists in the East of England. Wimpole Park horticultural advice and support for many of the National captures moments in time over the last 500 years of Trust’s most significant gardens. With over 35 years in the turbulent history. These moments are not captured as horticultural industry, his work was recognised when he was paintings or photographs but as subtle undulations in the awarded the ‘RHS Associate of Honour’ held by only 100 Wimpole turf – undulations that also form memorials to the horticulturalists at any one time. Join Ian as he shares his lives of the everyday people who made their living from this favourite plant and favourite National Trust gardens, as well land. Angus will explore some of the events and as what the National Trust is doing to connect visitors with personalities that have shaped the landscape we know these amazing living works of art. today. The talk will be followed by a walk in Wimpole Park to look at some of the evidence of the ground. Meet at the Turning Circle at 1.30pm. Natalie Haynes Troy Story Clare Mulley 3-4pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 The Woman Who Saved the Children Star of the BBC Radio 4 series Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Natalie brings her unique combination of ancient 1.30-2.30pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 history and stand-up comedy to take you on a tour around the In 1919, social reformer Eglantyne Jebb co-founded a relief Trojan War, the setting for her latest novel A Thousand Ships. fund providing urgent assistance for children starving The stories of the women affected by the war have largely been following the Allied blockade of Germany. Now celebrating untold, but Natalie takes women like warrior Penthesilea and its centenary, Save the Children continues to protect the priestess Cassandra out of the shadows and places them where lives of millions of children worldwide. Award-winning they belong: at the heart of the story. biographer Clare Mulley explains how Eglantyne – a brilliant, unconventional woman known as ‘the White Flame’ – and Save the Children have supported children from the Russian famine of the 1920s to the civil war in Syria today.

Neil Oliver Melvyn Bragg The Story of the British Isles A Passion for History & Ideas 3-4pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 Archaeologist and television presenter Neil Oliver is well placed 1.30-2.30pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 to provide an intimate account of what makes the British Isles Melvyn Bragg – award-winning novelist, broadcaster, Labour so special. In The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places, he Peer in the House of Lords, and presenter of the deeply rich takes us from a human story first traced from footprints in the and satisfying In Our Time for BBC Radio 4 – brings us his sand, to the Roman and Viking invasions and settlements, latest novel Heloise and Abelard. Told through the eyes of a religious and civil upheaval, industrial revolution and two world present-day academic, it’s the story of the infamous love wars. Join Neil on a journey of windswept headlands, affair that rocked 12th-century France, when a female battlefields, ancient forests and magnificent cathedrals – each scholar, Heloise d’Argenteuil, embarked on a passionate a destination where the spirit of place holds true. relationship with her tutor Peter Abelard. Join Melvyn to hear how ideas and a love of history have been woven With thanks to together throughout his varied writing and broadcasting

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Shannon Hogan Callum Weir Investigations of the Roman Landscape at Organic Farming at Wimpole Wimpole 4.30-5.30pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 3-4pm | Grand Dining Room | £10/£8 Farmland bird numbers have declined by 50% since 1970 and worms are absent from 40% of cultivated fields. Nature The excavations at Lamp Hill on the Wimpole Estate have needs our help and in this talk and walk, Callum Weir, Farm given the National Trust a very rare opportunity to explore Manager of Wimpole Estate, will explain how the National the area’s ancient history. The site dates to the Late Iron Age and early Roman period (c.100BC to 150AD), and has Trust is putting policy into practice by farming for nature. He yielded an exciting assemblage of metal objects, many of will delve into Wimpole’s innovative farming history, share which link to the Roman military and are suggestive of votive the trials and triumphs of organic farming, and show how offerings, which would indicate the presence of a shrine farms can be the key to reversing nature’s decline. After the somewhere in the vicinity. Furthermore, evidence from the talk, join Callum for a walk-and-talk tour of one of our farm dig indicates that pottery was being manufactured locally sites. and it’s possible we have our very own Wimpole Roman pottery, made within the grounds of the estate! Francis Pryor Colin Grant & Clair Wills History of The Fens Migration: Windrush and Beyond 6-7pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 Archaeologist Francis Pryor is one of Britain’s most 4.30-5.30pm | Rathbones Marquee | £10/£8 distinguished living experts on the Bronze and Iron Ages. In From 1948, Commonwealth citizens were encouraged to his new book The Fens: Discovering England’s Ancient relocate to Britain, including West Indians enticed to ‘come Depths, personal history interweaves with descriptions of a home’. The cultural landscape encountered was often hostile beautiful, often misunderstood landscape in which the and racist. Yet post-war Britain needed rebuilding, and new author has lived, farmed, walked, excavated and loved for arrivals also flocked from Ireland, Bengal, Poland, Malta, over 40 years, from its transformative man-made levels and the Punjab and Cyprus, transforming themselves and the drainage systems, to its medieval buildings and soaring country in the process. Colin Grant, (Homecoming, Voices of churches. the Windrush Generation), and Clair Wills (Lovers and Strangers) discuss mass migration’s impact on this transfiguring period of UK history. Jonathan Freedland Looking Back to Look Forward Bart van Es 6-7pm | East Lawn Marquee | £12/£10 The Cut Out Girl: Fate and Family in Nazi Our Annual Looking Back to Look Forward Lecture is delivered this Europe year by journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freeland. Guardian columnist and successful thriller writer under the name of Sam 4.30-5.30pm | East Lawn Marquee | £10/£8 Bourne, (latest To Kill the Truth), Jonathan is also the presenter of Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award for The Cut Out BBC Radio 4’s The Long View, in which stories from the past shed Girl, Bart van Es untangles a family’s secret in this haunting light on the present. That makes him a firm believer in the value of memoir. Eighteen thousand Jews lived in The Hague in 1940; history as a guide. But faced with huge divisions in our nation, what only two thousand survived the war. Bart van Es always if the very notion of an agreed historical record is in question? And wondered about the fate of the Jewish children his what if future generations will be less able to learn the lessons of grandparents sheltered, and their estrangement from one, history – to look back to look forward – thanks to a combination of © PHILIPPA GEDGE GEDGE PHILIPPA © Lientje. What was the girl’s side of the story, Bart wondered. post-truth politics, changes in communication and powerful forces What really happened during the war, and after? committed to a new denialism? In conversation with Clare Mulley, festival patron, historian and author

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Caroline Lawrence Living with the Romans 10.30-11.30am | East Lawn Marquee | £7 | Ages 8+ Caroline Lawrence, author of the Roman Mysteries series televised by the BBC, has a passion for all things Roman. She wants to know everything about their lives, especially the exciting and surprising things. Come and hear what Caroline has discovered about the sounds, smells, sights and tastes of Roman life.

Marcia Williams Three Cheers for Women! 10.30-11.30am | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 7+ It’s time to give Three Cheers for Women! in this interactive and engaging event with master storyteller and illustrator, Marcia Williams. Be inspired by the painter Frida Kahlo, save the environment alongside Wangari Maathai, and discover more about Olga, the brave Girl Guide who was imprisoned in jail during World War Two and who inspired Marcia’s latest book, Cloud Boy. Learn how to draw comics, absorb fascinating facts and test your knowledge with an interactive quiz – you’ll be truly awed and inspired by these wonderful women.

Interactive events with: Lucy Worsley Schools’ Day • Chae Strathie on Life in Ancient Egypt, Thursday 20 June Lady Mary • Lucy Coats on Greek Mythology 12-1pm | East Lawn Marquee | £8 | Ages 9+ Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 • Roger Stevens celebrating 50 years since the Join historian Lucy Worsley to find out all about the world’s first moon landing most famous divorce! Thrilling, dramatic and captivating – Lady Mary is the story of Henry VIII and Catherine of • Tony Bradman on the Anglo-Saxons Aragon’s divorce told through the eyes of their daughter, • Christopher Lloyd on the History of Everything! Lady Mary. Expect costumes, trivia and tips on how to get a princess out of jail! • Caroline Lawrence travelling back to Roman

London With thanks to With thanks to Plus living-history displays with scenes of Celtic and Romano British life and a warrior display and To apply for the schools day, please email The John Coates [email protected] Charitable Trust wimpolehistoryfestival.com 25 Children’s events – Saturday 22 June Children’s events – Saturday 22 June

Adam Frost Julia Golding Utterly Unbelievable World War Two Curious Science Quest 12-1pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 8+ 4.30-5.30pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 7+ Join the award-winning author of Utterly Unbelievable: Join award-winning children's author Julia Golding and World War Two and The Epic Book of Epicness as he shares embark on an adventure through the history of science. some of his favourite historical facts and puts everyone's Julia will talk about her Curious Science Quest books, knowledge to the test in a fun and exploring science through various periods in history and highly interactive Kids v Adults seeing how they all contributed to our modern History understanding of life and the universe. You'll also Quiz! discover how our knowledge and scientific theories evolved throughout the ages.

Anthea Simmons Michael Morpurgo Lightning Mary The Mozart Question: 1.30-2.30pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 8+ A Performance Join Anthea Simmons for an introduction to a heroine from With Music history you should all know, Mary Anning, the star of her 4.45-6pm | East Lawn Marquee new book Lightning Mary. On a stormy night, a group of £15/£9 | Ages 8+ villagers are struck by lightning. The only survivor is an infant – Mary Anning. From that moment on, a spark is lit Michael Morpurgo’s The Mozart within her. Growing up on the windswept Dorset coast, Mary Question tells the story of Paolo follows her father, hunting for fossils uncovered by the Levi, a world-famous performer waves. Ignoring taunts from fellow villagers, Mary is who developed his passion for music determined to bring back valuable treasures to help feed her as a young child with the help of his family – even if that puts her in the face of danger. Mary teacher, Benjamin. Alongside this must depend on her unique courage and knowledge to fulfil story is that of his parents who were both her dream of becoming a scientist at a time when girls have musicians too – Jewish prisoners surviving no opportunities for such ambitions. What will happen when by playing music in a concentration camp she makes her greatest discovery of all? during the Second World War. Treated with utmost sensitivity for a family audience, The Mozart Question is a story of friendship and Miriam Halahmy family, truth and secrets – interwoven by the power of culture and music. Emergency Zoo 3-4pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 8+ Suitable for audiences from 8 years old, this unique performance of the Miriam Halahmy’s novel The Emergency Zoo was inspired by story, narrated by Michael Morpurgo learning that at the start of World War Two, the British put and directed by Simon Reade, is down 750,000 pets because they thought they wouldn’t beautifully enhanced and cope with the war. Miriam’s book tells the story of a group of embellished with extracts from children who desperately try to hide their pets in a den in the music by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach woods. Hear Miriam explain the background to her novel, try and Vivaldi. Featuring Daniel Pioro some Morse Code puzzles, learn a World War Two song, and on violin and string quartet The ask all the questions you’ve always wanted answered by a Storyteller’s Ensemble. writer!

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Michael Morpurgo David Long Flamingo Boy Heroes of World War Two 10.30-11.30am | East Lawn Marquee | £8 | Ages 9+ 12-1pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 9+ From the nation’s favourite storyteller comes Flamingo Come and hear David Long’s true-life stories about brave Boy, set during World War Two in the South of France survivors and heroic animals. David will explain what we can where a young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm. learn from the animals who serve us and the way people can Michael Morpurgo talks about his remarkable novel of be resilient. He’ll also read stories from his books Heroes and hope, love and unexpected friendships. Survivors – come armed with questions!

Isabel Thomas Anne Frank Stories & Magic from History Off the Page 3-4pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 7+ 10.30-11.15am Come and meet author Isabel Thomas to discover some of 1.30-2.15pm history’s most amazing minds. The Little Guides to Great Lives RG Carter Family Marquee | £5 | Ages 2+ series introduces curious minds to the most Step into history and make the past present for young children inspirational figures from history, with a lively and captivating session of stories and magic. including Ferdinand Magellan, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, and Nelson When booking, please specify which session you will be Mandela. Get to know these attending. historical greats, as Isabel unlocks With thanks to History Off the Page each great life, with storytelling Visit the website at www.historyoffthepage.co.uk and activities. Isabel Thomas is a science writer and children's author who has been shortlisted for the Joyce Dunbar & James Mayhew Royal Society Young People's Book Mouse & Mole Prize, the ASE Science Book of the Year and the Blue Peter Book Awards. 12-1pm | Rathbones Marquee | £7 | Ages 4+ Mouse and Mole is a heart-warming picture book series about two furry best friends who find life full of little ups Philip Ardagh and downs. Join Mouse and Mole as they enjoy the simple things in life like picnics, roasting The Secret Diary of Kitty Cask chestnuts by the fire, relaxing in 4.30-5.30pm | RG Carter Family Marquee | £7 | Ages 5+ hammocks and celebrating Be prepared for an hour of 18th-century smuggling and birthdays. Mole is a worrier but intrigue! Kitty Cask is a smuggler’s daughter. In the Cornish Mouse is always there to help. coastal village of Minnock, Kitty isn’t supposed to be involved in Join award-winning author any of her father’s schemes… but she’s very good at creeping Joyce Dunbar and illustrator out at night, and before too long she is caught in the thick of the James Mayhew to celebrate the action – salvaging shipwrecks, staging prison-breaks, and return of Mouse and Mole after 20 staying one step ahead of the tyrannical excisemen! Funnyman years of being out of print! Joyce Philip separates the fact from fiction and gives you the chance and James will be reading from the to dress up and act out scenes from the book. books and talking about their collaboration, with James live- drawing.

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