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UK's biggest festival devoted to history. June 2025 Join the Chalke History Club 👉 #LiveInHistory #AmazingHistory
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Last Seen Profiles
Get ready to be enchanted by the stars & writers of the award-winning BBC sitcom Ghosts at the Chalke History Festival! ✨
We're thrilled that the incredibly talented
@benwillbond
and
@Lazbotron
will be swapping Button House for Broad Chalke!
#Ghosts
#HorribleHistories
#CHF2024
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And that's a wrap on Chalke History Festival 2024!
What an AWESOME week! A huge thank you to everyone who made this week truly unforgettable.
We hope you have left with new knowledge and cherished memories. We look forward to seeing you all again next June! 😊
#Chalke2024
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BRILLIANT NEWS!! We're thrilled and grateful to have been awarded £260k as part of the Government’s
#CultureRecoveryFund
to ensure our Festival & Festival for Schools have a sustainable future.
See you all next year folks!🙌21–27 June 2021
#HereForCulture
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IT IS HAPPENING! 🙌
We are thrilled to announce
#CVHF
2021 is on!
It'll be a 5 day event with our usual amazing line-up of talks, topical debates, Outdoor Programme & activities for children. More details to come tomorrow!
#savethedate
#amazinghistory
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📚Another
#FestivalSpeakers
Book Giveaway begins today!🙌
Win ANNE BOLEYN & ELIZABETH I: THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHO CHANGED HISTORY by
@TracyBorman
, published this week!
Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter.😊
Competition closes 6pm on 21/5.🤞🏼
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And it's goodnight from us..
Thank you to all of you who came, spoke, demonstrated, catered, volunteered, sponsored and supported the festival. We're thrilled that we could return this summer and hope you all had a blast. We did!
Until next year, 20-26 June 2022😊
#amazinghistory
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What a photo! This is Fred Glover, veteran of the Normandy Campaign who came to our Red Devils morning yesterday.
#WW2
#AmazingHistory
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For one evening only the festival gets spooky as The Captain & Robin/Humphrey swap Button House for Broad Chalke!
@benwillbond
&
@Lazbotron
, take to the stage on Fri 28th June - all included in your day ticket! 👉
#Ghosts
#ComedyLegends
@HHTV_
#GhostsBBC
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What a week it has been! There are SO many people that make this festival great so our thanks go to you all..
🎤180 speakers
🎭150+ living history performers & entertainers
🎵Musicians
🙋♂️186 volunteers
🛍️50+ traders
🚧28 site team
🍻Bar staff
🎟️Ticket office
🎪Dining tent
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Do seek out the
@greatwargroup
at the festival - here until Sunday! Thanks
@churchill_alex
and Doug..
#amazinghistory
#cvhf
#WW1
#history
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📚In a special
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway, WIN 4 BOOKS published this week! 🙌
Young Queens
@leahrchang
God Is an Octopus
@BenGoldsmith
The Battle of the Beams
@whippletom
Elizabethan London: The Ghost Theatre
@matosman
RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter!
Comp closes 14/5
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The office of Sir Terry Pratchett is being re-created at
#CVHF
giving you the chance to see the inner-sanctum from where he penned his best-selling novels. But beware you have to go through the Shed of Doom to get there! 😮
#CVHF
#AmazingHistory
#Wiltshire
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It's a wrap! Thank you to all of you who came and made the festival such fun & HUGE thanks to all of you who made it possible -speakers, sponsors, living historians, caterers, ticket office, volunteers, contributors, site team and organisers. 🙏🏻
Until next year, 26 June - 2 July
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The sun rises over Chalke Valley History Festival 2019.. here's to an amazing week everyone! Gorgeous view from our giant Hawker Typhoon..
#Tiffy
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📚This week in our
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway you could WIN a signed copy of 'Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot' by
@BeaverWestminst
, published this week!🤩
Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter.
Comp. closes 6pm 11/6
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📚We have a special Coronation Week
#FestivalSpeakers
Book Giveaway!🙌
WIN a signed copy of
@monstroso
’s all-new 007 adventure, ON HIS MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE published this week. Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter the draw.
Closes 6pm on 7 May.
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Future US President Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson, a trainee lawyer and rival horse breeder, in a duel
#onthisday
in 1806. Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy - she had mistakenly married Jackson before her divorce from her first husband had been finalised.
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Meanwhile school children have been enjoying our WWII trench, new for this year!
#CVHF
#AmazingHistory
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Thank you all for your amazing comments and support for the festival -we appreciate each & every follow, RT and like!❤️ Would like to say a huge thanks to the volunteers on the Media Team who helped capture the moments that mattered & hopefully kept you all informed & entertained
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🙌COMING UP NEXT WEEK!🙌
The
#ChalkeValleyHistoryShow
: 7 days of speakers, amazing historians, living history + previously unseen features and footage from our archive.
Each programme will premier at 19:30 from 22 to 28 June on our website where they will remain thereafter.
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Wow, do take a look at this new collection of colourised photos of
#DDay
by
@marinamaral2
! Can't wait to see her at
#CVHF
with
@dgjones
who'll introduce her stunning images that span world history & anchor each image in its context:
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We're so lucky to have a working T-34 tank at the history festival this year!
Our all-female Red Army crew will explain how it is maintained, driven and fired and will discuss the role of women combatants on the Eastern Front.
#tanktuesday
#cvhf
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This week we met 101 year old, Dunkirk veteran John Hamilton at our festival - rather impressively he revealed that he hits the gym for two hours a day! 😮
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🚽 Find out what
@almurray
thinks of the Chalke toilets...
Don't miss the special live session of
@WeHaveWaysPod
and so much more at this year's EPIC Festival-
#GlastoOfHistory
#WhatsNotToLike
#HistoryLoversAssemble
#WWII
#LivePodcast
@James1940
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So this is what the A303 at
#Stonehenge
looked at circa 1928.. not much traffic then!
So sad to hear that the Tunnel is going ahead - the impact it will have on this rich archaelogical ground will be catastrophic.
(📸:
@rmouldingandco
who built the first tea shop there in 1929)
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We’re delighted to have
@almurray
and
@James1940
recording a live episode of We Have Ways of Making You Talk at this year’s festival. The question: what were the biggest British blunders and successes of WW2?Generously sponsored by
@Savills
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📚This week in our
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway you could WIN a signed copy of
@Dannythefink
's powerful memoir, 'Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival’!
🌟Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter.
Comp closes 6pm 25/6
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📚For our final
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway, the prize is a signed copy of 'PAX: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age' by
@holland_tom
, the definitive history of Rome's golden age, published NEXT week!
RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter.
Closes 6pm 2/7
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As the best Festival week of the year has now come to a close, we wanted to say a HUGE thank you! There are SO many people that make this festival the incredible event that it is, so our thanks go to you all, especially our wonderful volunteers! 👏
#Chalke2024
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Absolutely packed outdoor stage this evening for the Ghosts talk, lots of very excited fans!
#chalke2024
#historylover
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🌟Our final
#ChalkeValleyHistoryHeroes
competition begins today!🌟
WIN TICKETS to hear Rob Wilkins, Sir Terry Pratchett’s friend and business manager, talk about Terry’s life, his work, his inspiration and his profound love of the Chalke Valley:
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Good night everyone.. Thank you so much for all your support, tweets, retweets and photos. We've had a top week and it's been so wonderful to hear about your Festival experience. See you next year: 22 - 28 June 2020!
#AmazingHistory
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Who's up for another cracking day of history in a field?
We have a lot of amazing speakers and events lined up for you..
#amazinghistory
#cvhf
#historyinafield
📸
@martinjamescook
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Happy Easter everyone! On this fine morning we launch our new campaign
#DesertIslandBooks
where some of this year’s festival speakers share their favourite history books that they are passionate about.🌴📚
Here’s
@james1940
with his top 5..
#booklovers
#history
#books
#cvhf
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📙 Want to win a signed copy of
@VicHislop
's recently published 'Those Who Are Loved’? Simply RT and Follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter the draw. Competition closes 6pm on Friday. GOOD LUCK! 🍀😊
#FestivalSpeakers
#CVHF2019
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This was a special moment. Royal Anglian soldiers applying their experience
as 1944 Suffolks in action with two Shermans.
#AmazingHistory
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We know the brilliant Captain
@benwillbond
's looking forward to Chalke History Festival next week...
Who are you looking forward to seeing? 🤔
Comment below 👇
#ghosts
@Lazbotron
#historyfestival
@ghostsbbc
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📚Time for a
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway!
This week, win Frank Dikötter’s, CHINA AFTER MAO: THE RISE OF A SUPERPOWER
‘One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the 20th century simply must read’ New Statesman
RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter!
Closes 6pm 30/4
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#Onthisday
in 1945 Winston Churchill announces the end of war in Europe after Germany’s surrender
#VEDay
http://t.co/VzzPQLLSvD
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Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park
#inthisday
in 1851. Organised by Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole, it was the world's first international display of design and manufacturing with over 6 million people visiting 13,000 exhibits.
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Hurrah! The new Chalke Valley History Festival website is now live!🤩Explore the huge array of events, performances, Living History & experiences.
Immerse yourself in
#history
like never before:
26 June-2 July
⬇️
#HistoryLoversUnite
#cvhf
#amazinghistory
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📙 'Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for France' is out THIS WEEK!
You can win a signed copy - simply RT and Follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter the draw. Competition closes 6pm on Friday. GOOD LUCK! 🍀😊
#FestivalSpeakers
#CVHF2019
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📚In a special
#FestivalSpeakers
book giveaway, WIN 3 BOOKS published this week! 🙌
Blue Machine by
@helenczerski
An Uneasy Inheritance by
@pollytoynbee
The Winding Stair
@Jesse_Norman
RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter!
Comp. closes 4/6
Good luck!🍀
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📙 This week you can WIN a signed copy of 'The Woman Who Saved The Children',
@claremulley
's brilliant biography of Eglantyne Jebb who founded
@savechildrenuk
100 years ago. Simply RT & Follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter. GOOD LUCK! 😊🍀
#FestivalSpeakers
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The wait is over! 🙌
We are delighted to share our new programme for 2023 with new themes and categories, a wider subject matter than ever before including talks, discussions, performance, music, living history & activities for the entire family.
⬇️⬇️
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42 days to go!
Here's
@James1940
to tell you all about it..
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
👇👇
#cvhf
#amazinghistory
#familyfriendly
#history
#festival
#vintagefairground
#livinghistory
#soldierschool
#historicalfastfood
#livemusic
#speakerscorner
#historygalore
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And it's goodnight from us.. Thank you all of you who came and made CVHF 2018 so special. Same time, same place, next year?
Monday 24 - Sunday 30 June 2019. SAVE THE DATE!
#AmazingHistory
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Please RT! TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE for the UK's biggest History Festival! A massive range of
#AmazingHistory
: debates, talks, walks, food, pop up history, interactive history, tanks, air displays, living historians, friends, family and fun for 2018:
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Love this item from
@BBCSouthNews
- from the launch of our giant
#HawkerTyphoon
yesterday!
(Archive is Pathe and music from Audio Network)
#Amazing
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🎙️
@TheRestHistory
Live! 🎙️ Did we mention the world's most popular history podcast will be recording live at the Chalke History Festival?
⏰ Set your alarms as day and talk tickets go on general sale TOMORROW! 🙌
@dcsandbrook
@holland_tom
@GoalhangerPods
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We are all starting to get that festival feel! Here’s
@James1940
checking out the build so far.
#countdown
#7daystogo
#amazinghistory
#cvhf
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We are thrilled that the majestic Spitfire & the legendary P-51 Mustang will be returning to the skies over the Chalke History Festival this June.
Get early access to tickets by exploring our exclusive membership packages
#spitfire
#mustang
#worldwartwo
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Welcoming
@monstroso
@Lazbotron
@history_alice
and
@JustinPollard
to the IPGL stage this morning on ‘What do we really know about history?’.
Many thanks to the sponsors of this talk,
@PortRegisSchool
#Chalke2024
#historylover
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The morning after the week before...
Thank you to our media team volunteers & photographers for capturing the moments that matter & thank you to YOU for all your likes, comments & content - keep it coming!🤩
It has been fantastic to enjoy this journey into the past together! 🙌
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📚Time for another
#FestivalSpeakers
Book Giveaway!🙌 Win a signed copy of
@history_alice
’s brilliant 'UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London!'
Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter the draw.
Comp. closes 6pm on Sunday 23 April
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📰The 100+ national & regional press
💰All our incredible patrons, sponsors & members who support us & our mission of bringing history alive!
🌟And of course, each & every one of you who came & enjoyed the festival🙏🏻 See you again 24-30 June 2024. We can't wait
#amazinghistory
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Rapturous applause for
@Feargal_Sharkey
on the IPGL stage this afternoon with
@guywalters
- the audience were captivated by Feargal's talk on his love of chalk streams, their unique ecological value and the threat they face.
Kindly sponsored by
@journalupdate
#Chalke2024
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Huge congratulations to our 2023 Festival Photo Contest WINNER Nicola over on Insta! She has won £100 PLUS tickets to CVHF 2023! 🎉🙌
Thank you to all of you who took part - we have put some of the many entries up on our website here:
#amazinghistory
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#OTD
in 1943 RAF no. 617 Squadron begins the dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne & Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs. 2 Power stations, factories & mines were destroyed & several damaged. 1600 Civilians died.
#OperationChastise
(Photo by Flying Officer Jerry Fray)
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A message from our most excellent festival chairman,
@James1940
..
#savethedate
22 - 28 June 2020
#amazinghistory
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📚Ready for another
#FestivalSpeakers
Book Giveaway?!🤩
This week WIN
@profmcscott
’s, X MARKS THE SPOT: THE STORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN EIGHT EXTRORDINARY DISCOVERIES, published this week!
Simply RT & follow
@CVHISTORYFEST
to enter the draw. Closes 6pm 28 May
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History in one of the most beautiful corners of England? ..Yes please!❤️
#beforethebuild
#2weekstogo
#cvhf
#chalkevalleyhistoryfestival
#amazinghistory
#history
#festival
#broadchalke
#wiltshire
#igerswiltshire
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It’s a packed tent for the Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room event,
#RediscoveringWomenInHistory
with
@PhilippaGBooks
and
@AlisonWeirBooks
!
Kindly sponsored by The Rothermere Foundation
#amazinghistory
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7 Days of terrific talks, learned living historians, stunning sunshine, flavoursome food, fabulous friends, lots of laughs and of course, oodles of
#amazinghistory
! 😀
Thanks for coming everyone - see you next year: 22 - 28 June 2020
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Before
@cspencer1508
took the podium to tell the compelling story of
#TheWhiteShip
he said "Chalke Valley is my favourite festival, it's a joy to be involved". Delighted to welcome him on his 4th visit. Huge thanks to sponsors
@Rathbones1742
#amazinghistory
#wiltshire
#cvhf
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What a year it has been! This year we were once again blessed with fantastic speakers, volunteers, traders, living historians, visitors and of course, the weather! 🌞 Thank you all for your ongoing support! 🙏🏻
Here's to next year and more
#amazinghistory
! 🥂
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You can hear Clare tell her fascinating story in our
#HistoryHub
:
In 1944
#KrystynaSkarbek
secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison on a strategic pass in the Alps. She went on to save the lives of 3 male colleagues just before they were shot. She was
#TheSpyWhoLoved
, Britain’s first female special agent of WW2.
#BOTD
, in Poland, 1908
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In tribute to the 16,000 Allied airmen who gave their lives before, during and after
#DDay
, we're mounting a 4x times size replica of a rocket-firing
#HawkerTyphoon
, a largely forgotten but brilliantly successful ground-attack fighter at our history festival
#DDay75
#CVHF
#Tiffy
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WHAT A DAY! 🙌 There was a golden glow about the Festival today, not only from the sunshine but the beaming smiles of the thousands that came to visit!
Don't miss your last chance to be part of the magic... come & join us tomorrow gates open 9.30am!
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🎧 Pioneering surgeon, Joseph Lister who died
#onthisday
in 1912 transformed harrowing 19th-century surgery into the safe, vaunted profession we know today. You can now hear
@DrLindseyFitz
tell his fascinating story in our
#historyhub
: …tory-of-medicine/
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It's a glorious morning and we are ready for you! 🙌
🎪 Day One of the Chalke History Festival is finally here! ☀️
We are so excited to welcome every single one of you over the next 7 days. 😊
Come and join us!
👇👇👇
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We are greatly honoured The Duchess of Cornwall is opening our Festival today! She is introducing her Reading Room event,
#RediscoveringWomenInHistory
with
@PhilippaGBooks
and
@AlisonWeirBooks
.
#amazinghistory
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A packed Spiegeltent today for
@Sathnam
&
@DalrympleWill
’s discussion on how British imperialism has shaped the world ‘Every 6 days an ex colony of the British empire celebrates its independence. But why do the British seem to be so unaware?’
Kindly sponsored by Arabella Stagg.
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Calling all
@TerryPratchett
fans!
@Discworld_com
is coming to
#CVHF
bringing with it large doses of magic! Visit the inner-sanctum of Sir Terry's office & see the Shed of Doom, an 18ft monolith based on drawings by
@PaulKidby
. FREE with your entry ticket:
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Amazing to welcome
@SpitfireFilly
in conversation with
@James1940
to begin Second World War morning with ‘Defence of the Reich 1943’.
A packed programme ahead in Hiscox Tent.
#cvhf
#amazinghistory
#bringinghistorytolife
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#Onthisday
in 73, Roman troops breach the walls of the Masada fortress, ending the Great Jewish Revolt, to discover that the Jewish defenders have committed mass suicide after several months of siege.
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What an amazing week it's been! Big thanks to everyone who made it possible inc. volunteers, sponsors, speakers, living historians, film crew, photographers, caterers, Site Team, Ticket Office & Festival Management Team!
Here are our Festival highlights:
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History Lovers, you are in for a huge treat in just 6 weeks time! 😃
Get your tickets here:
#CVHF
#AmazingHistory
#ChalkeValley
#History
#Festival
#Summer2019
#talks
#LivingHistory
#Historians
#BroadChalke
#Salisbury
#Wiltshire
#FamilyFriendly
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🎧 Some weekend listening! Michael Wood tells the incredible story of King Alfred’s Battle for Wessex
#HistoryHit
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"How restoring colour to old photographs transforms our view of history – and brings the dead to life" By the brilliant
@marinamaral2
: via
@telegraphnews
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Reflecting on a wonderful Festival & what a privilege it was to host such excellent speakers, be part of such lively discussions & witness enraptured audiences.
Enjoy a few highlights from the wonderful
@HiscoxUK
Tent and thank you for the memories! 👏
#Chalke2024
@HiscoxComms
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Guess what’s just arrived, hot off the press?! 😉
#CVHF2019
#programme
#excited
#ticketsonsalein14days
#amazinghistory
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Immerse yourself in a lively festival brimming with stimulating talks, engaging panels, living history and enthralling performances. Tickets on sale soon. Find out more and sign up for the Festival newsletter at
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So we've had the History of Duelling, Panzer IV vs the Sherman, The Black Prince and his Cook, Dig for History, Ancient Crafts, Medieval Medicine and so many more amazing Pop Up HIstory talks! What subjects would you like to hear about this summer at
#CVHF
? 🤔
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Archeology lovers, we've a treat for you at
#CVHF
! Phil Harding has had a long and celebrated career. In this talk, he'll review his own archaeological path and place it within developments as archaeology has become an accepted profession in its own right:
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Admiral Horatio Nelson captures the entire Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen, having ignored an order to withdraw
#onthisday
in 1801.
(image: The Battle of Copenhagen by Nicholas Pocock, National Maritime Museum)
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Where will you be in 11 weeks time? We'll be seeing sights like this over the
#ChalkeValley
..do come and join us! 30 June-1 July
#CVHF
#AmazingHistory
#AirShow
#AirDisplays
#WW2
#Vintage
#Planes
#Blenheim
#Summer2018
#ChalkeValley
#Broadchalke
#Wiltshire
#FamilyFriendly
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The sun goes down on Chalke Valley History Festival 2017. Thank you to everyone who came - here's to next year!
#AmazingHistory
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