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Tom Holland
Millennium
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12pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Written by the highly acclaimed author of Rubicon
and Persian Fire, Millennium is a stunning panoramic
account of the two centuries on either side of the
apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute,
William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of
Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles
and the invention of knighthood, and the primal
conflict between church and state. The story of how
the distinctive culture of Europe was forged out of
the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as
fascinating and momentous as any in history.
Sponsored by Blackwell
Chris Mullin
A View from the Foothills:
The Diaries of Chris Mullin
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12pm/ Garden Marquee, Christ Church/ £7.50
‘It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists.
In which case I am in with a chance.’ So says Labour
MP and Chris Mullin, whose candid, irreverent and
acerbic account of life inside the Parliamentary goldfish
bowl shows us government from the bottom up, in
all its chaotic, farcical glory. In his 22 years as an MP,
Mullin has not been shy of criticizing his own party,
and he carries that spirit through to these diaries,
started in 1994, which read like Alan Clark crossed
with Yes Minister.
TUESDAY MARCH 2009
Steven Parissien
Interiors: The Home Since 1700
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12pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Domestic interiors have changed hugely since 1700.
The former Director of Education at the Prince’s
Foundation for the Built Environment, Steven
Parissien is perfectly placed to discuss those
changes. Ranging over both Western Europe and
North America, and dealing not just with the grand
houses of the aristocracy, but the homes too of the
merchants and middle classes, he charts the nature
of those changes, and in particular the impact of
industrialisation on the way we live indoors.
Sponsored by Purcell Miller Tritton
William Bynum
The History of Medicine:
A Very Short Introduction
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1.15pm (10 minutes) / Blackwell Festival Bookshop
Meadows Marquee, Christ Church
William Bynum briefly explores the history of Western
medicine, examining the key turning points, discoveries
and controversies in its rich history, from classical
times to the present.
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