Dr Tim Brain, former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire and Visiting Professor at the University of Gloucestershire will be sharing insights into the unexplored history of policing at the launch of his new book on Thursday 25 March at the University.
Book launches, local authors and related news
Chipping Campden 1914-1918 - a new book by Paul R Hughes
Thu, 16/10/2008 - 19:16Saturday 8th November 2008 - Sunday 9th November, Chipping Campden Town Hall, Glos.
The launch of a new book with over 500 photographs featuring the stories of 488 Chipping Campden men and women who were involved in World War 1.
The Courtier & the Queen-Sir Christopher Hatton and Elizabeth I
Sun, 14/09/2008 - 05:28A new title by Northampton Author -Malcolm Deacon. Book launch at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton on Sunday 21st September 2008 from 2pm - 4pm.
No-one gave Queen Elizabeth I more faithful and devoted service than Sir Christopher Hatton; yet he has been largely ignored by historians and unfairly dismissed by early biographers. The myth of him as “the dancing chancellor” still persists, the details of his life relatively unknown.
A Place in my Country - In Search of a Rural Dream - by Ian Walthew
Sat, 19/04/2008 - 17:47Thursday 1st May 2008 Cotswold Author Ian Walthew's highly acclaimed first book is being re-issued in paperback.
A Place in My Country is part memoir, dealing with issues of personal identity, sense of place, loss and memory, but equally it is about a small Cotswold village in the early 21st Century.
"Funny, touching and ultimately very moving..a beautiful, unsentimental account of a personal loss that is reflected in the rapidly changing texture of life in rural England" Sunday Telegraph
The Battle for Gullywith - Susan Hill wants your stories and your pictures
Wed, 09/04/2008 - 17:51The Battle for Gullywith by Cotswolds author Susan Hill, for children aged 8-88, was published on Monday 7th April.
A dedicated website is now live www.gullywith.com and Susan would like to receive your drawings and stories based upon the book and how about entering the Withernosaurus Competition as well.
The Battle for Gullywith - Susan Hill's latest children's book
Fri, 14/03/2008 - 15:10Monday 7th April - Local author Susan Hill's first book for children for some years - The Battle for Gullywith - will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing (of Harry Potter fame). It is a story of magic, myth and midnight adventure. It is officially for children aged 9-12 but pre-publication has been enjoyed by a five year old whose father read it to her, and an 83 year old(who read it himself).
The Return of Ulysses - a new book by local author Professor Edith Hall
Tue, 05/02/2008 - 11:24The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey - written by local author Professor Edith Hall and published by I B Tauris & Co. Limited.
100 Years of Hidcote Manor Gardens - Restoring the garden to its heyday
Fri, 10/08/2007 - 12:45
Following on from July's article...
After Lawrence Johnston's death on 27 April 1958, the National Trust sought to let the manor house in order to raise some funds to help to maintain Hidcote Manor garden and had a freer hand to manage the garden. The furnishings in the house had already been sold at a sale at the property in late 1956 and then work was done to bring the house into a suitable state for letting.
Several prospective tenants were interviewed in September 1958 by the secretary of the National Trust. This resulted in a fourteen year tenancy at a rental of £250 a year being offered to Sir Gawain Bell who accepted it and undertook to furnish Hidcote as soon as possible. His intention was to make Hidcote his home when he retired from the Foreign Office in 1960.
It was evident in these early years that the National Trust had an annual deficit of some £1,000 to £2,000 each year in the running of Hidcote and this shortfall had to be found from the gardens fund. Consequently, when structures in the garden, such as the plant house by the lily pond, fell into disrepair consideration was given to whether to repair or demolish it. Although it was initially decided to repair it, the lack of funds led to a decision to demolish it. Sir Edward Salisbury, director of Kew, visited to identify which plants should be retained in a smaller plant shelter elsewhere in the garden.
100 years of Hidcote Manor Garden continued
Mon, 16/07/2007 - 17:11
In the June Bulletin, the events of 100 years ago when Lawrence Johnston and his mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop, came to Hidcote Manor and then the subsequent creation of Hidcote Manor garden leading up to its heyday in the 1930s were recalled. In this article, the transfer to the National Trust in 1948 and subsequent developments at Hidcote up to Lawrence Johnston's death in 1958 are covered.
In the 1930s, Lawrence Johnston was actively engaged in seeking plants for Hidcote or for his garden at Serre de la Madone at Menton on the south coast of France. He was both a sponsor of, and went on, plant hunting expeditions to places such as Formosa (Taiwan) and to Yunnan in China. When he was at Hidcote, he led an active social life as his diaries for 1929 and 1932 show that there were many coming to see the garden or to play tennis. Towards the end of the 1930s when he was in his late 60s, he spent his summers at Hidcote and the winter months at Serre de la Madone.
During the second World War he was concerned about the taxation associated with living in England and began to consider what he should do about Hidcote. James Lees-Milne, whose parents used to live at Wickhamford, records in his diary that in February 1943 at a luncheon organised by Sibyl Colefax, an influential figure in London society who is mentioned a few times in Lawrence Johnston's diaries, Johnston took him aside to ask if the National Trust would take over Hidcote without endowment after the war when he intended to live in the south of France for good.
Following the end of the war, Sibyl Colefax wrote in April 1947 to James Lees-Milne who was then working for the National Trust to say "I was over at Hidcote with Vivien Leigh Saturday. Laurie Johnston wants to give Hidcote to the N. T. now. So do get him tied up. You see he is not gaga but has no memory. He told me, indeed took me away specially to talk of this."
