Started in 2017, Cliveden Literary Festival which was established to revive the long tradition as a political and literary salon of Cliveden House is returning for its second year on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September.
The festival takes place at Cliveden House, which sits above the Thames in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by 376 acres of National Trust grounds, known for its setting for political machinations, romantic intrigues, and intellectual debates.
The Festival launched in 2017 to revive the rich literary heritage of Cliveden House, which has been inspiring writers and thinkers from Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw and Jonathan Swift to Sir Winston Churchill.
This year the programme featureswriters and historianslikeTina Brown, Helen Castor, Sir Harry Evans, Misha Glenny, Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb, Natalie Livingstone, Margaret MacMillan, Catherine Ostler, John Preston, Professor David Reynolds, Andrew Roberts, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Kate Williams and Andrea Wulf.
Also broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, psychologist Tanya Byron, former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service Sir Richard Dearlove, architectsLord Rogers and Amanda Levete, cultural leaders Director of the V&A Tristram Hunt and CEO of Serpentine Galleries Yana Peel, businesswoman Dame Helena Morrissey, actress Ruth Wilson and many more will be there.
The topi of the sessopn will include reflections on WWI in its centenary year, Russia and espionage in the 21stcentury, women and power, female monarchs, great literary adaptations for film and television as well as the festival mainstays of history and politics, with a closing debate on Brexit between Philip Collins, Jonathan Freedland, Michael Gove, Anne McElvoy, Kwasi Kwarteng, Stephen Pollard and June Sarpong.
Regarding this festival, Chairman of Cliveden Literary Festival and author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, Natalie Livingstone said, “I am thrilled that Cliveden is once again hosting such an exciting array of cultural tastemakers, brilliant writers and speakers”.
Tickets are availabe in online with special discount for students. Day ticket starts from £99 per person per day and weekends ticket starts from £180 per person which also needs booking fee.
For moreinformation visit clivedenliteraryfestival.org
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Cliveden Literary Festival
