Latest Past Events
Day 4 – Sunday 6th October 2024
Morning session Old Hall and Careers Centre, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £23 9:00 - A tour of the School Archives: including a look at the Exhibition Room, the green baize door, Old Hall and the School Chapel. (Meet outside Old Hall.) 10:00 - The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen Revisited: Junzaburo Nishiwaki’s Postwar Engagement with Graham Greene: […]
Day 3 – Saturday 5th October 2024
Morning session Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £25 9:45 - Me and My Girl: Graham Greene's Relationship with Dorothy Glover, 1938 to 1971: The historian Kevin Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church University) pursues the facts about the elusive Dorothy Glover, a children’s writer and set designer with whom Graham Greene conducted an affair in the […]
Day 2 – Friday 4th October 2024
Morning session The Town Hall £23 9:45 - Traveling the Lawless Roads: Anglophone Writers in Mexico, 1926-1946: Julia G. Young (Catholic University of America) will discuss how writers flocked to Mexico, and, describing the church-state conflict, provided a beautiful but distorted view of the country. 10:45 - Break for tea and coffee 11:15 - The […]