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
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
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
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
📚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.🤞🏼
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
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
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
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
📚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
📚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.
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.
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
🙌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.
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:
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
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! 😮
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)
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
📚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
📚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
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
🌟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:
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
📚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
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.
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
📙 '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
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.
⬇️⬇️
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
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:
🎙️
@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
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
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! 🙌
📚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
📰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
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
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
#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)
📚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
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
This year we have another amazing line-up of wonderful historic war birds for the Festival weekend. The star of our
#AirShow
will be Britain’s only flying
@RAFBBMF
Lancaster!
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
! 🥂
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
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
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!
🎧 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/
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!
👇👇👇
Richard Llewellyn, 93, is among the dwindling number of
#DDay
veterans – here he is talking about his experience onboard HMS Ajax that bombarded Gold Beach.
You can hear his story at our History Festival next month at our special
#DDay75
Morning.
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.
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:
#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.
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:
"How restoring colour to old photographs transforms our view of history – and brings the dead to life" By the brilliant
@marinamaral2
: via
@telegraphnews
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
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
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
? 🤔
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:
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)