Welcome to the Hall’s What’s On page – part events diary, and part online booking system.
For tickets to online events, please only purchase one ticket per household.
Please note: if visiting the Hall there is no need to print out your tickets – let’s save some paper – we will have a list of names on the door, so just tell us who you are and we will “tick you off”.
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Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus; these are the Bloodlands – between empires, between dictators, that suffered the worst horrors of the European 20th century and are now deep in the horrors of the 21st. Lucy Beckett has written two novels set in and around this tragic part of Europe, and has for years studied its history.
100% of online ticket sales will be donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee, and so far we have raised over £700.
£35.00
From the Lindisfarne Gospels to the Luttrell Psalter, Medieval Britain – and northern England in particular – is responsible for the creation of some of the most beautiful literary masterpieces in the world. Join historian and University of York lecturer, Cristina Figueredo, as she explores the who, where why and how of these remarkable manuscripts. Lunch and refreshments included.
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Yorkshire-born author and journalist Madeleine Bunting, who spoke so beautifully about her book The Plot, returns to Markenfield this year with a very different topic. Island Song takes the reader back to 1940, when Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her home, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation.
Forty years later, her daughter, Roz, begins a search for the truth about her father, and stumbles into the secret history of her mother’s life. Written with emotional acuity and passionate intensity, Island Song speaks of the moral complexities of war-time allegiances, the psychological toll of living with the enemy and the messy reality of human relationships in a tightly knit community.
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Join us at Holy Trinity Church in Ripon for an evening with Sir Ranulph Fiennes, in conversation with his lifelong friend and fellow adventurer Anton Bowring.
From floating for three months on an ice floe in the Yukon River with just the odd Canadian polar bear for company, to digging out landmines with a Swiss Army knife, and (hold on to your stomachs) cutting off the frostbitten tips of his fingers with a fretsaw on a Black and Decker workbench.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has raised millions for charities over the last 20 years, and The Friends are hugely gratful to him for fundraising for them this evening. All welcome. Refreshments on arrival. Book signing to finish, with thanks to The Little Ripon Bookshop.
£18.00
