Museum is real hidden treasure

Swindon Advertiser.

Museum is real hidden treasure

Tuesday 27th December 2011

Memorial event 16th March 2012 Eltham Churchyard

Richard Oliver Launcelot Jefferies (18th July 1883 – 16th March 1885) memorial – ceremony at St John’s Churchyard, Eltham on Friday 16 March 2012 at 2pm

Birthday Lecture

Richard Jefferies Festival

Please go here to read more about the Richard Jefferies Festival taking place in Swindon from 24-28th August 2011.

You can download a copy of the full programme .

All events are free to attend. The Richard Jefferies Museum backs onto Coate Water (not as indicated on the flyer that points to the hospital).

Study Day: RICHARD JEFFERIES & SPORT

RICHARD JEFFERIES AND SPORT

SATURDAY 30 July 2011

RICHARD JEFFERIES’ MUSEUM, MARLBOROUGH ROAD, COATE, SN3 6AA

PROGRAMME

The day will seek to draw together some of Jefferies’ responses to sport and identify key common themes between them.

A Tribute to Hugoe Matthews

The Telegraph
13 April 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8448958/Hugoe-Matthews.html

Hugoe Matthews, who died on March 10 aged 72, was an eminent thoracic surgeon expert in diseases of the oesophagus; he was also an authority on the Victorian nature writer and mystic Richard Jefferies.

An Evening of Favourite Readings

An Evening of Favourite Readings
From the Works of local writer
Richard Jefferies
The Prose Poet of the Countryside

By Members of the Society
Margaret Evans, Simon Coleman, John Webb & John Price

7.30pm Tuesday 19th April 2011


Central Library,
Regent Circus, Swindon SN1 1QG

Tickets £2.00/£1.50 conc.

• In person: From Floor 2 Help Point, Central Library
• Telephone: (01793) 463238
• Email: central.library@swindon.gov.uk

www.swindon.gov.uk/swindoncollection

Download poster here: http://www.northwilts-communityweb.com/site/RJSocPub1/RJ%20evening%20poster.pdf