Radical Islands Launch – SOLD OUT
Join us for an event like no other – take a boat trip to the Packing Shed at Mersea Island, a unique piece of our Essex heritage and join two fascinating talks by Ken Worpole and Jules Pretty.
£20
- 28 May -27 June 2027
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The Packing Shed West Mersea, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
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Human Rights
Anglia Ruskin University Bishop Hall Lane, ChelmsfordJoin leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti for a powerful discussion on Human Rights: The Case for the Defence. This urgent, powerful book demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future.
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The Scapegoat
Anglia Ruskin University Bishop Hall Lane, ChelmsfordA stunning biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life. Lucy Hughes-Hallett will transport us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine.
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Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside
Read on Sea 28 Broadway, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United KingdomA thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers in the year the Titanic sank and London was growing anew. Diving into the underbelly of London’s bustling, occasionally lawless antiques trade at the turn of the century, narrative historian Victoria Shepherd paints a compelling scene of the city at the height of empire, in the midst of its remarkable transformation into a modern metropolis.
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Always Take Notes (live podcast taping)
Hedingham Castle Castle Hedingham, Halstead, EssexAs the capstone of EA Festival 2025, we are taping an episode of the UK’s #1 podcast about writing, Always Take Notes. Co-hosts Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd will be interviewing physicist and multi-award-winning science writer Frank Close about his latest work, Destroyer of Worlds. Strap yourself in for a fascinating look under the hood of what makes Frank Close tick.
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Artists of Great Bardfield – SOLD OUT
Between the Lines Bookshop The Old Post Office, High Street, Great Bardfield, Braintree, Essex, United KingdomDr Janet Dyson will provide an introduction to the group of artists who gathered in the Essex village of Great Bardfield from the 1930s onwards.
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Downfall of the Templars
Layer Marney Tower Layer MarneyWhy were the Knights Templar brutally crushed after years of courageous service in the Crusades? Were they framed for being heretics, sorcerers and traitors? Do the Templars still exist today? Broadcaster and author Tony McMahon investigates the links between the trials of the Templars and the witch hunt mania that was about to grip Europe.
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Mythica
Layer Marney Tower Layer MarneyAward-winning classicist and historian, Emily Hauser, will take us on an epic journey to uncover the true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends – and the real heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
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The Traitor’s Circle
Layer Marney Tower Layer MarneyPrize-winning journalist and acclaimed author of The Escape Artist Jonathan Freedland tells the thrilling true story of one of the most dramatic episodes of the second world war. With deep moral resonance for our own time, he asks what kind of person it takes to risk everything and stand up to tyranny.
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