What’s on in York: Lecture & Demonstration: Minuet to Waltz: The Georgian Duet
Fairfax House :
Thu 24 Nov :
7.00pm – 9.00pm :
Tickets £14 or £12 for members and Friends of Fairfax House
Dancing was central to Georgian life, at court, in the ballroom and on the stage. Country dances were extremely popular, but this was also the era of the duet – beginning with the minuet and ending with the waltz. This talk by Moira Goff will explore the Georgian duet, from the formal ballroom dances of the time of George I to the apparent spontaneity of the couple dances enjoyed in the reign of George IV. It will also trace the evolution and reveal the variety of theatrical pas de deux between the early 1700s and the early 1800s. Along the way, it will peer at fashion, celebrity and dance crazes through the prism of changes in the style and technique of social and theatrical dancing. There will be pictures and even some demonstration of the dancing of this period.
Moira Goff is a dance historian specialising in ballroom and theatre dancing from 1660 to 1760. Her research is practical as well as academic and she enjoys dancing duets and country dances from the 18th and 19th centuries. She has published many articles, essays and papers, as well as her book The Incomparable Hester Santlow: a Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage which appeared in 2007. Moira is currently Librarian at the Garrick Club in London.
Tickets £14 or £12 for members and Friends of Fairfax House – prices include a glass of wine. Tickets can be bought by calling into the Museum Shop or alternatively phoning the shop on 01904 655543.
What’s on in York: Thinking of you always: a collection of WWII letters
Dringhouses Library :
Thu 24 Nov :
7.00pm – 8.30pm :
£4 (£3 with a Yorkcard)
Author Pauline Kirk talks about her new book, an edited memoir of her Uncle’s letters to his wife while serving in the RAF during WWII.
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What’s on in York: Dringhouses Archives Day
Dringhouses Library :
Thu 24 Nov :
9.30am – 5.30pm :
Free
Drop in anytime all day to see original documents about Dringhouses from the York Archives, including the 1624 Samuel Parsons Map of Dringhouses, a real treasure of the Archives.
Archives staff will be on hand to answer your questions and show you the documents.
What’s on in York: Literature and the Recreation of Experience
York Explore Library :
Tue 22 Nov :
6.30pm – 8.00pm :
£4 (£3 with a York card)
Can reading Regeneration bring us closer to a real understanding of what the First World War was like? Professor Greg Currie ponders the limits and possibilities of imaginative literature.
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What’s on in York: “Fear no more, says the heart”: Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘Regeneration’
York Explore Library :
Mon 21 Nov :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£6 (£5 with a Yorkcard)
Join us for a roundtable discussion of the connections between Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’, with leading Woolf scholars from Leeds Trinity University.
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What’s on in York: Troupers: A tribute to Music Hall
York Explore Library :
Sun 20 Nov :
2.00pm – 3.00pm :
£4 (£3 with a York Card)
Music Hall: often astounding, sometimes awful, always extraordinary! This show celebrates the lives and routines of the artistes the nation loved – some now legendary, many forgotten. Britain had talent!
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What’s on in York: Tea dance at Acomb Explore Library 19th Novemebr
What’s on in York: with Author Wendy Holden at Acomb Explore Library
Acomb Explore Library :
Fri 18 Nov :
2.30pm – 4.00pm :
Free
Join us for this talk with best-selling author Wendy Holden via Skype about her book “Shell Shock”, companion to a major British television series investigating the psychological effects of war.
In this title, which covers the case histories and painful testimony of numerous veterans and their doctors, individuals tell their own stories of horrors to which they have been exposed, and of events that pushed them to the brink of human endurance.
Shell Shock also relates the history of military psychiatry and the dilemma of those entrusted to balance the demands to ‘cure’ soldiers and return them to battle with the needs of the soldiers themselves, who were struggling to understand their condition
Wendy will also discuss her other work, and latest projects. Author and novelist of thirty books, and a journalist for eighteen years, she has chronicled the lives of many remarkable subjects, from the story of the only woman in the French Foreign Legion to the lives of three babies born in concentration camps Seventy years ago.
Tickets can be booked
In person: call in at any library in York
By phone: 01904 552828 or 01904 552651
Email: york@exploreyork.org.uk
What’s on in York: Explore Your First World War Heroes – Drop In Help-Desk
York Explore Library :
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Nov :
1.30pm – 4.30pm & 10.00am – 12.00pm :
Free
Are your WW1 ancestors proving to be a challenge? Ken and Linda Haywood will be running their First World War Help Desk. Drop in and see what you can discover!
For more information click here.