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June 2024
Marion Gibson, Witchcraft
June 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • History
  • SOLD OUT!

Sold Out – Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials

Marion Gibson in conversation with Syd Moore

This book explores the history of witchcraft and witch hunts through the stories of the victims, stories which have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James VI and I and “Witchfinder General” Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them. Marion Gibson will be in conversation with Syd Moore, author of The Essex Witch Museum Mysteries series. Read more

June 30, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • History
  • CANCELLED
  • The History Books

Cancelled – Thorns, Lust and Glory

Estelle Paranque in conversation with Suzi Feay

Join Estelle Paranque, historian and acclaimed author for a fascinating new perspective on Tudor history’s most enduring story. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. Read more

Photo of Simon Heffer. Sing As We Go book cover
June 30, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • History
  • The History Books

Sing As We Go

Simon Heffer in conversation with Rowan Pelling

In partnership with EA Festival The fourth and final volume in Simon Heffer's critically-acclaimed sequence of books that chart the history of Britain in the century from the accession of Queen Victoria to the outbreak of the Second World War. Read more

June 2025
June 1 @ 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
  • Radical Islands
  • History
  • SOLD OUT!

Radical Islands Launch – SOLD OUT

Ken Worpole and Jules Pretty

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. Read more

June 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Politics
  • History

Human Rights

Shami Chakrabarti

Join 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. Read more

Photo of Lucy Hughes-Hallett alongside book cover image of The Scapegoat
June 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • History
  • Biography

The Scapegoat

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

A 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. Read more

June 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • History
  • Partner Event

Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside

Victoria Shepherd

A 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. Read more

Photo of Frank Close alongside book cover image of Destroyer of Worlds
June 15 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
  • Science
  • History
  • Live Podcast

Always Take Notes (live podcast taping)

featuring Frank Close

As 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. Read more

June 28 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • History
  • Author talk
  • Partner Event
  • SOLD OUT!

Artists of Great Bardfield – SOLD OUT

Dr Janet Dyson

Dr Janet Dyson will provide an introduction to the group of artists who gathered in the Essex village of Great Bardfield from the 1930s onwards. Read more