Conference Thanks

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Note: The thanks below were written by Paul Allen, my co-organiser, and omit him thanking himself for the huge amount of work he did in liaising  with the conference centre, printing the programmes and sorting badges, as well as numerous elements that made the conference possible over the weekend.

Thank Yous and Acknowledgements

As with all events their success is not only due to the participants but also to all those who have worked behind the scenes.

A special thank you is due to Andrew M. Butler, my co-organiser, whose professionalism and attention to detail has been invaluable. Without him the conference would not have been possible. I am also very grateful to our treasurer Valerie Fitch for keeping us on the straight and narrow with the finances and for providing a very firm backbone to the organisation. Thanks must go to the paper review team consisting of Dr Emelyne Godfrey, Professor Patrick Parrinder, Dr Michael Sherborne, Dr Maxim Shadurski and again to Dr Andrew M. Butler who did a very thorough and perceptive job. Through all this, our secretary Eric Fitch has provided calm and important back up to all our efforts.

We are grateful to our plenary speakers, Stephen Baxter and Lesley A. Hall, who have generously given of their time and expertise. Similarly, we are indebted to all those who agreed or offered to give papers.

Thanks also to our post-banquet reader, Richard Crowest (http://crowest.co.uk/).

We are indebted to Professor Peter Beck for kindly leading our walk around Wells’s Woking.

Oneworld, publisher of Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield’s A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy, sponsored the drinks reception on Friday.

Zanna Allen (http://www.zannaallenillustration.co.uk/), designed the programme front cover, troubleshot some technical problems and we owe her many thanks for this.

We are indebted to the conference centre team led by Chris Norrington, ably assisted by Michelle Chilcott and Ian Johnson.

Perhaps most importantly of all I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Woking Borough Council – and their H.G. Wells year event team led by Riette Thomas – who have encouraged and supported this conference both financially and administratively from the beginning. See http://www.celebratewoking.info/wellsinwoking for further details of their ongoing events.

 

For (some) tweets from the event, see https://twitter.com/hashtag/wells2016?src=hash&lang=en-gb and for the next H.G. Wells Society event see here.

 

 

A Day in Bromley Central Library with H G Wells 24th September 2016

To mark the 150th anniversary of H.G. Wells’s birth in Bromley:

A Day in Bromley Central Library with H G Wells:
The Man Who Invented the Future
24^th September 2016
Large Hall, 4th Floor
Bromley Central Library

11.15 Registration with coffee, tea and soft drinks

11.45–12.45 The Bromley Visionary – with speakers including Dr Emelyne
Godfrey, Dr Andrew M Butler and Dr Michael Sherborne

12.45 Book Signing by Deborah McDonald co–author of A Very Dangerous Woman – A biography of Moura Budberg the last love of H G Wells

13.00–14.00 Break – N.B. light snacks and nibbles only, available in the hall

14.00 Unveiling of a bust of H G Wells in the library by the Mayor of Bromley

14.30–15.30 A talk by the novelist Christopher Priest entitled – “H G Wells … my contemporary”

15.30 Break – Coffee, tea and soft drinks

15.45–16.30 An opportunity to view selected items from the extensive Wells archive at Bromley Central Library, introduced by Professor Patrick Parrinder

17.00 A conducted walk of Wellsian Bromley led by Tony Banfield of the Bromley Civic Society
For further details and updates see: https://anticipations2016.wordpress.com.

▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫▫Tickets for the day £8.00 or £6.00 if purchased in advance via The H G Wells Society.

Please make cheques payable to: “The H G Wells Society”, or pay directly into our Barclays bank account:   Sort Code:  20–32–00 – Account number:  30958530

Cheques should be sent to: 20 Upper Field Close, Hereford, HR2 7SW

Please contact Valerie Fitch – Treasurer – valerie.fitch@btinternet.com for more payment information only.
Link to The H G Wells Society

Richard Crowest

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We will be following the Saturday night banquet with some readings from H.G. Wells by Richard Crowest.

Richard Crowest is a performer and writer with over twenty years’ experience in theatre, television, radio, corporate work and the heritage industry. His voice can be heard in Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, the British Library and at dozens of National Trust properties, notably Bateman’s, Burwash, East Sussex, where he’s the voice of Rudyard Kipling. His readings of Saki and E.F. Benson are enjoyed around the world. He voiced Gerald Wilde in Big Finish’s “The Darkest Shadow”, part of their Dark Shadows series. His readings of E.F. Benson ghost stories can be found at http://corvidae.co.uk/benson/ and of Saki at http://corvidae.co.uk/saki/

War of the Worlds Virtual Battlefield Tour

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At the end of Anticipations there will be an opportunity to join a guided walk led by Professor Peter Beck of War of the Worlds Virtual Battlefield Tour. To join the walk, meet him at the town square at 2.30 near Barclays Bank.

 

To download the map of the walk see here.

Further details of the walk may be found here: WAR OF THE WORLDS VIRTUAL BATTLEFIELD TOUR 2016 july 11