Mohandas K Gandhi
Date: 14 May 2025 Start time: 19:00 End time: 20:30 Venue: Ecgwins Club, 117 High Street, Evesham WR11 4EQ Phone: 07871 285606 Email: info@eveshamfestivalofwords.org Views on Gandhi are varied, and far from universally positive. To Churchill, Gandhi was a seditious anti-colonialist, while to Einstein he was a truly great human being. His passionate adherence to ‘satyagraha’ – non-violent resistance – led […]
‘How We Made the Golden Age of Steam’
TV Producer David Parker’s two-part series ‘The Golden Age of Steam‘ broke audience viewing records when it was first transmitted on BBC Four. Yet the series almost never got commissioned. Using superb home movie films of Britain’s steam railways and the locomotives that ran on them, alongside testimony from some of the men and women […]
The Battle of Evesham 2025 (760th Anniversary Festival and Reenactment)
THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM 2025 760th Anniversary Festival – 3 days of medieval mayhem Friday 12pm-5pm Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday 10am-5pm 🛡 NEW Tourney Arena for demonstrations and entertainment 🛡 NEW c13th Joust-Tourney on Friday 🛡 NEW Kenilworth Castle built on the Battle Arena 🛡 NEW Siege engine warfare attacking and defending the castle 🛡 NEW […]
WWII at Blenheim Palace – Evacuees and Espionage
Date: 27 June 2025 Start time: 10:45 End time: 12:00 Venue: Ecgwins Club, 117 High Street, Evesham WR11 4EQ Phone: 07871 285606 Email: info@eveshamfestivalofwords.org The Marlborough family, Estate staff and Blenheim Palace itself played a full and energetic part in the war effort. This talk tells the story of how the Palace prepared for the worst, survived the onslaught of 400 […]
An Afternoon with author Sue Moorcroft
Date: 28 June 2025 Start time: 15:00 End time: 16:00 Venue: Ecgwins Club, 117 High Street, Evesham WR11 4EQ Phone: 07871 285606 Email: info@eveshamfestivalofwords.org Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Women’s Fiction. She has published 24 novels since 2005, translated into thirteen languages. Her novels of life and love have been #1 on Kindle UK and Top 100 […]
An Afternoon with author Jo Thomas
Date: 29 June 2025 Start time: 14:00 End time: 16:00 Venue: Ecgwins Club, 117 High Street, Evesham WR11 4EQ Phone: 07871 285606 Email: info@eveshamfestivalofwords.org Jo Thomas writes romantic fiction about food and love, all set in fabulous locations. And she loves a happy ending! Jo worked for many years as a reporter and producer, first for BBC Radio 5, then moving […]
The Great Train Robbery – Revisited
Date: 29 June 2025 Start time: 19:00 End time: 21:00 Venue: The Henrician, Victoria Ave, Evesham WR11 4QH Phone: 01386 765588 Email: hello@henrician.org 2023 marked the 60th Anniversary of The Great Train Robbery, an event that saw the theft of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early […]
The Knights Templar: History & Mystery
The Knights Templar have fascinated us for centuries. They were holy warriors who fought with incredible bravery in the Crusades but were then destroyed by their own side. In battle they were the bravest knights – first on the battlefield and the last to quit. Charging towards the enemy with their white cloaks emblazoned with […]
Edward Longshanks, A Great or Terrible King?
Was Edward really a great king, or one of a long line of medieval butchers, masquerading as a king? Why did he attack and conquer Wales with such ruthlessness? What exactly happened when he turned his attention to the Scots, to earn his epitaph ” Malleus Scottorum ” – Hammer of Scots? And just why […]
A Cunning History – Sir Tony Robinson
Over the past few decades Tony Robinson has emerged as Britain’s foremost face of popular history, the creator of a worldwide comedy icon, and an award winning writer of children’s books and television. Tony presented twenty seasons of Channel 4’s archaeology series “Time Team”, and played Baldrick in “Blackadder”. He wrote the BBC’s “Maid Marian and Her Merry Men” in […]
