Cost: £25 per person (includes lunch)
A limited number of student bursaries are availabl, reducing the cost to £12. To take up this offer please contact admin@gryphoneducationaltrust.org in the first instance.
Members and/or guests unable to attend in person will be able to watch a live stream of the event online. To register for this, please contact Sarah Jardine-Willoughby at SarahJWilloughby@aol.com. The cost will be £12, payable in advance. A link to the live streaming will be sent by email immediately prior to the event.
Please send your remittance (cheque or cash) to: Robert Kirkpatrick
Alternatively, payment can be made by bank transfer direct to the Society's bank account:
Name of the account:Children's Books History Society
NatWest plc, Lower Sloane Street Branch
Sort code 60-19-26 Account no: 23712457
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Past One-day Conferences or Study Days
The Speakers included
Brian Sibley Tove Jannsson's Family Moomintroll: The family we'd all like to have
Hilary Clare Charlotte Yonge, the first teenage writer for girls **celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Yonge**
Howard Bailes: The Carey Family: an exploration of the novels of Ronald Welch
Sarah Jardine-Willoughby The Gatty Family: Close and Talented
The Speakers included
Jonathan CooperLaughing and Grief: The Portrayal of Classics in School Stories
Hilary ClareReal Education in Fictional Girls'Schools
Susan BailesA Glimpse of Jane Johnson's rare 18th century Nursery Library
Lesley DelaneyEighteenth-century Nursery Reading: Ellenor Fenn's Pioneering Home Learning Scheme
Robert KirkpatrickCharles Dickens and Dotheboys Hall: Fact or Fiction?
The Speakers included
Sue WalkerCreativity and collaboration: Marie Neurath's information books for children
Joe PearsonPuffin Picture Books
Helen DayThrough the eyes of a Ladybird
Alan Powers"A House is a House for me": Architecture in children's books
The Speakers included
Jane CooperHappy Families? What does go on in Mrs Molesworth's children's books
Elizabeth GalvinThe Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit
Dr. Jacqueline WilsonMissing Mothers
Celebration of CBHS and tributes to Pat Garrett, co-founder with Brian Alderson
Nicholas TuckerAttempting to protect family values through nursery rhymes
Ann ThwaiteThe remarkable novels of M.E. Atkinson
The Speakers included
Annemarie BilcloughA 'seeing eye'- Beatrix Potter's animals
Emma LawsThe animals of the 100 Acre Wood
Dr. Victoria de RijkeAnimal Metaphor in Children's Literature Illustration
John EricsonThe Wind in the Willows REVISITED through its illustrations
Jane Badger'Get off my foot, Kipper' The Horse and the Pony in Children's fiction
Chris Coles & David OsborneThe Animals of 'BB' otherwise known as Denys Watkins Pitchford author of "Little Grey Men".
The speakers included:
Morag Styles'Ding Dong Bell': from Shakespeare (Mother Goose's Melody) to contemporary bards, the role of nursery rhymes' in the canon of children's poetry
Elizabeth Hammill'Over the Hills and Far Away': A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes From Arround the World
Debbie PullingerFalling down and chopping off the threatening world of nursery rhymes
Anne Harvey & Caroline Walker'Nursery Rhymes of London Town' by Eleanor Farjeon
Ian BeckIllustrating Nursery Rhymes
Brian AldersonThe Opies
The speakers included :-
Andrew Nash The printing and publishing scene round about 1900
Lesley Delaney L.Leslie Brooke 1862 - 1940
Susan Bailes Florence Upton 1873 - 1922
Dennis Butts Kipling in Animal Land
Iain StevensonThe publishing activities of Grant Richards
Anne Stevenson Hobbs ‘Arthur Rackham Arrives’!
The speakers included :-
Pat Pinsent Saving young sinners from hell: the children's poetry of John Bunyan and Isaac Watts
Dennis Butts Parables from the Prison and the Asylum: The Children's Verse of Christopher Smart
Anne Harvey Two Sisters & A Friend: Poetry by Ann & Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe
Louise Joy Children's poetry and the comic mode
Morag Styles‘Love me, my baby’ (Rossetti): Some distinctive trends in women writing poetry for children in19thC
Brian Sibley "It is wrong from beginning to end”: Lewis Carroll and the Poetry of Parody