This is your opportunity to meet bestselling author Andrew Child and to gain a personal insight into ‘the coolest continuing series character’ * who returns in 2025 with his 30th adventure!
We all need a Jack Reacher – a righteous avenger for our troubled times. Everyone loves him - from Haruki Murakami to Ken Folett, Kate Atkinson to Peter James, Reacher's fans span genres.
How the Cistercians rebuilt the Yorkshire economy after the devastation of the Harrying of the North.
This talk, with Peter Lewis, looks at both the destruction carried out by William the Conqueror's army and how, 60 years later Yorkshire provided a welcoming home to the Cistercian monks, who rebuilt the county, using their skills in sheep farming, lead mining and iron working - and introduced cheese-making to Wensleydale into the bargain.
Images and stories from some of my best wildlife encounters.
Simon says "I am an award-winning wildlife photographer based in Wetherby, Yorkshire, UK. I hope to expose the beautiful, fragile, yet enduring nature of our British wildlife. My work is widely published and has been highly commended in the British Wildlife Photography Awards, International Garden Photographer of the Year, and Bird Photographer of the Year competitions.
If self-publishing and football fanzines hadn’t exploded in the late 80s then the landscape we inhabit, the grounds we attend, and the fandom that exists today would have been very different. This talk, from Pete Slater, is about the many, varied football fanzines, the creators, the media personalities who started them, the stories behind the names of fanzines, the varied links to music and the huge influence the football fanzines that were created 50-60 years ago had on changing culture then and shaping the media and arts today.
In this lecture-performance, Ahamefule J. Oluo weaves personal and familial narratives of race and music with live demonstrations of the constructions and technologies of sound, instrumentation, and electronic looping from their performance, The Things Around Us.
Through a hybrid artistic and educational experience, we are witness to an unexpected telling of the story of Black music and its political, social, and cultural reverberations.
Steven will explore what we mean by these design terms, and the art education system that produced so many highly skilled designers.
This talk complements the display The Art of Craft which features fine silver by Christine Connell.
Tickets include General Admission to Lotherton, so make sure you leave time to explore the wider estate too.
Join Stephanie Davies, Lotherton’s Community Curator, to learn about the lives of the Gascoigne children, how they lived and how this changed over 200 years from Sir Thomas 1745 to Yvonne Gascoigne 1919. Followed by tea in the servants’ rooms with the curator.
This talk complements new exhibition Fashion at Play: Children’s Clothing Through the Ages
Ticket price includes general admission to Lotherton, so make sure you leave time in your day to explore the wider estate.
Award-winning British garden designer and BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost is stepping beyond the garden gate and hitting the road again after his sell-out tour during 2025.