Events

The Alliance of Literary Societies Literary Weekend 2013 - 01/06/2013 to 02/06/2013

A weekend of talks, tours and conversation about books and writers, centred on St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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150 Years of a Military Hospital - 09/06/2013

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of Netley hospital, where Wilfred Owen was a patient in June 1917. A copy of Owen's military record will be on display.

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Was it for this the Clay Grew Tall? - 25/06/2013 to 12/07/2013

Was it for this the Clay Grew Tall? Words from War Requiem in a major new interpretation by Stephen Raw.

• Exhibition to be opened by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, on 24 June
• Featured exhibition of the City of London Festival, 25 June – 12 July 2013
• 2013: Year-long centenary celebrations of Benjamin Britten
• Exhibition synchronises with The City of London Festival’s performance of War Requiem in St Paul’s Cathedral, 25 June, by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – who gave the work its 1962 première in Coventry Cathedral - with German, Russian and English soloists.

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British Poetry of the First World War Conference - 05/09/2014 to 07/09/2014

The English Association’s major contribution to the events marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War will be an international conference at Wadham College, Oxford on 5th-7th September 2014. Full details of the conference and the provisional programme will be announced later this year.

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