York Explore Library :
Sat 3 Dec :
12.00pm – 5.00pm :
Free
Celebrating the achievements of people with a disability and exploring what disability means through poetry, music and art.
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What’s on in York: An Afternoon with Pat Barker
York Explore Library :
Sun 27 Nov :
2.00pm – 3.30pm :
£6 (£5 with a York Card)
A celebration of this year’s Big City Read. In her second visit to York Pat Barker will be bringing the Big City Read to an end and readers will be able to ask their own questions about Regeneration.
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What’s on in York: Archives Blitz-It day – The Chocolate Letters
York Explore Library :
Fri 25 Nov :
10.00am – 12.00pm; 12.45pm – 2.45pm & 3.30pm – 5.30pm :
Free
Get hands-on with our archives and help us make our collections available to the public, including the famous First World War Chocolate Letters.
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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: 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!
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What’s on in York: This Book Will Change Your Life
York Explore Library :
Thu 17 Nov :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£6 (£5 with a YorkCard)
Bibliotherapists and co-authors of The Novel Cure, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, explore their witty and original approach to curing with fiction.
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What’s on in York: In search of “a better ‘ole”
York Explore Library :
Wed 16 Nov :
6.00pm – 7.15pm :
£4 (£3 with YorkCard)
Keith Matthews shares his insight on trench warfare as seen through the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather.
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What’s on in York: War – and Peace: Wilfred Owen in Scarborough
York Explore Library :
Sun 13 Nov :
2.00pm – 3.15pm :
£6 (£5 with a York card)
‘War Poet’ Wilfred Owen wrote some of England’s most important and memorable poetry, and his words continue to inspire and challenge us. How, though, did a few private months in a small seaside town inspire Wilfred to new heights?
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