An illustrated talk by Ron Tiner, an experienced artist with a deep interest in the history of illustration. He has spent several years producing a unique, meticulously researched illustrated edition of the first of...
Angela Mandrioli and Dr Christine Faunch, the University’s Head of Heritage Collections, will talk to us about the author and show us around the Williamson archive. Numbers will be strictly limited, so please book...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing A talk by Robin Wootton. Charles Kingsley was born and brought up in Devon and became the 10th President of the Devonshire Association. Perhaps best known as...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing Robin Wootton will give the first Zoom talk of the Literature and Art section. Robert Graves was one of the most distinguished and most versatile literary figures...
An illustrated talk by Robin Wootton. Charles Kingsley, the DA’s tenth President, was a polymathic, independent-minded cleric, a polemicist, a pioneering socialist, and an indefatigable writer. Robin Wootton will explore his life, and discuss...
At our Branch Annual General Meeting in February, our indefatigable chairman Hazel Harland and all the other officers and members of the committee were unanimously re-elected to serve for a further period of twelve...
The annual mystery of the growing audience has continued into our 2015-16 season of talks at Colyton’s Peace Memorial Pavilion. We started in October with a tear-jerking talk, about a 1941 Dartmoor air crash,...