Founded in 1969
Guest speakers: Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Gyles Brandreth, James Naughtie, Lindsey Davis, and Liz Berry. More details to follow. We hope to see you there!
10.45 Lewis Carroll’s ‘Useful and Instructive’ limericks
Mark Davies, Lewis Carroll Society
11.30 “Say ‘How D’Ye Do?’ and Shake Hands”
Matt Crandall, Disney Alice collector and author
12.15 Lewis Carroll, Darwin, and The Hunting of the Snark
Stephen Thetford, Lewis Carroll Society
13.45 The Hunting of the Snark: Simon DaVison’s 2023 film
See here for more information about all of the above: Alice’s Day Talks and Film | Visit the Bodleian Libraries
15.45 LCS members’ social at The Head of the River (with mystery give-aways!). Non-members very welcome.
PLUS
11 – 12 noon & 14.30 – 15.30 at Alice’s Shop: come and meet LCS member Susanna Johnston, author of ‘The Secret of the Snark’.
14.30 at The Story Museum: LCS member Anna James will talk about her children’s book, ‘Alice with a Why’.
For details of the entire day’s programme (and events on Sunday 5 July) see here:
Alice’s Day | About Us | The Story Museum
AND on SUNDAY 5 JULY
Alice in Waterland walks around Christ Church Meadow with Mark Davies:
11.00 – 12.30 Book in advance
14.00 – 15.30 – Book in advance
14.00 – 16.00 Snarks, Riddles and Rhymes at The Treacle Well, Binsey, hosted by Oxford Children’s Book Group (with LCS member Jacqui Holderness).
Lewis Carroll: photographer of Victorian celebrities (including the Pre-Raphaelites) and of notable Whitby families.
A few of the men and women who had personal or creative significance for Carroll, and with examples of why Carroll was retrospectively called ‘the most outstanding photographer of children in the nineteenth century’.
Once Upon a Time in Oxford (and Whitby): the Origins of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
Carroll’s earliest published work – long before Alice – was inspired by Whitby. It was a place he revisited many times, as too did John Tenniel’s fellow Punch illustrator and Carroll acquaintance, George Du Maurier.
We won’t be visiting Westminster Abbey on this day but we will be having a study day devoted to Charles Dodgson.
The illustrated talks are:
The first talk will commence at 11.30, and there will be plenty of time to talk to the speakers and to other LCS members throughout the day.
Tickets (including lunch and refreshments) £20 (or £35 for non-members, including one year’s digital membership). This is an in-person meeting. You can not join online (but we will try to record the talks).
You can book here:
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/FTNM
For any questions – and to let us know of any food allergies or particular needs – please contact Steve at secretary@lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk
Members are invited to attend the Society’s virtual AGM2025 to receive the annual reports for the past year and toelect Officers and Committee Members for the year ahead.
Please Note: As only paid-up members can vote at the meeting it is essential for members to register to attend and(this is important) to receive the necessary online link for the event. Do this by emailing the Secretary, in advance, at
secretary@lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk
Anyone wishing to stand for election to the Committee,including the posts of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, are also invited to contact the Secretary (on the same address) to express an interest before the meeting. It has been an exciting and productive year but, going forward, new ideas and energy are needed to sustain the momentum. So, if you think you have something to offer, please let us know.
And, following the AGM business (circa 7.00 pm),
we will be closely examining…
Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
On the 5th of September (7-9 pm) at the Art Workers’ Guild, two speakers will inform those attending about the debilitating effects of stammering, and how it affected Lewis Carroll’s life.
The talks will begin with Vivien Grant-Jones, Speech and Language Therapist from the City Literary Institute in Holborn. Vivien will define what stammering is, its causation, and current methods used in treatment – with special reference to the psychological aspects of the disorder.
This will be followed by retired Speech and Language Therapist and Lewis Carroll Society Committee Member, Sarah Stanfield who will outline how stammering impacted the Dodgsons, what Victorian treatments were available and how his stammering impacted Lewis Carroll’s personal and professional life.
PLUS:
As reported in Bandersnatch 196, the Society’s ‘Looking for Alice’ ox scuplture will be unveiled in Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre on Monday 27 January. The ceremony will commence at 11am, and everyone is welcome. More details will be emailed to members in early January.
Members are invited to attend the Society’s virtual AGM 2024 to receive the annual reports for the past year and to elect Officers and Committee Members for the year ahead.
Please Note: As only paid-up members can vote at the meeting it is essential for members to register to attend and (this is important) to receive the necessary Zoom link for the event. Do this by emailing the Secretary, in advance, at
secretary@lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk
Anyone wishing to stand for election to the Committee, including the posts of Chair,
Secretary and Treasurer, are also invited to contact the Secretary (on the same address) to
express an interest before the meeting. It has been an exciting and productive year but, going
forward, new ideas and energy are needed to sustain the momentum. So, if you think you
have something to offer, please let us know.
Brian Sibley leads an expedition in search of the frabjous story of how a Stanza of so-called Anglo-Saxon Poetry, a Monster from the Tulgey Wood and a Beamish Boy with a Vorpal Blade helped ‘Jabberwocky’ become Lewis Carroll’s most celebrated poem. There will be ‘pictures and conversations’; but BEWARE! there may also be some whiffling and burbling!
Non-members wishing to attend should register in advance to receive the Zoom link (secretary@lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk)
