What’s On
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November
An Afternoon with John Clare - Poetry, Music and Song
Sat 1 November
3.00pm - 5.00pmJoin us for a beautiful afternoon of song and poetry as The Beauvale Ensemble perform a selection of John Clare’s poems set to original music.
Held in our vaulted cafe building, delicious refreshments — including homemade cakes, scones, and tea or coffee — will be available from our Cottage Café during the interval.
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November
Inconvenient People: Madness, Misdiagnosis & the 19th Century
Sat 15th November
3.00pm - 4.30pmJoin us at Clare Cottage for a fascinating afternoon with bestselling historian Sarah Wise, author of Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England and other acclaimed works including The Italian Boy and The Blackest Streets.
In this engaging talk, Sarah will uncover true stories of nineteenth-century men and women whose eccentricity, ambition or independence saw them labelled ‘mad’. She will explore the murky world of Victorian asylums, questionable diagnoses and the fight for liberty — with special reference to poet John Clare and his own experiences of mental health.