An Evening Celebrating the Past: the Weird & the Wonderful with Sally Coulthard
October 22 @ 18:30 – 21:00
If you were to choose 100 weird and wonderful objects to represent our history, what would they be? Join the acclaimed author of A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects and the forthcoming A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects, in an engaging and humorous journey through 12,000 years of British life, told through some its strangest artefacts.
Bestselling author and columnist Sally Coulthard has spent the last two decades writing about her favourite things – the natural world, the history of interesting things, and practical stuff. After studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford, and a brief stint working in factual television production, Sally moved back to her beloved Yorkshire, married a gardener and set up a smallholding; it’s from there, that Sally writes from a shed in the old orchard.
Sally’s written over twenty-five non-fiction books as well as writing columns for Country Living magazine and A New Good Life.
About the Book
From ancient artefacts to modern-day memorabilia, this startling book weaves a rich tapestry from the fragments of our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history. From farming tools to children’s toys, domestic objects and strange curios, the everyday items of the past reveal fascinating insights into an often-forgotten way of life. Birth, death, celebration, work, crime, play, medicine, beliefs, diet and our relationship with nature can all be read from these remnants of our past.
A Brief History of the Countryside will be available to buy on the evening and Sally will be doing a signing.