Writer • Historian • Russianist
HELEN
NEWS & EVENTS
Forthcoming
2010
6 May 2.30 p.m: ‘My Discovery of the Lost Portrait of Mary Seacole’, illustrated
talk for The Art Fund, at the Wallace Collection www.wallacecollection.org
11 May: I will be attending the VIP opening of the newly revamped Florence
Nightingale Museum, to which I am now a consultant on Mary Seacole and
women in the Crimean War www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
16 May: ‘Two Crimean Heroines: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole’
lunchtime talk for Women’s International Zionist Organisation, London
19 May, 3.00 p.m: Talk at Croydon Public Library on my writing
4 June, 6.30 p.m : Talk on Lenin in Exile 1900-1917, at St Bede’s Hall Oxford,
42 St Giles www.stbedeshall.org
12 June, 9.45 a.m: Talk on my approach to writing history at Southern Writers
Conference, Earnley Concourse, Sussex
13 June: Talk on Mary Seacole and the lost portrait at
Althorp Literary Festival www.althorp.com
24 June: I will be attending the Society of Authors
and Writers in Oxford summer party at Freud’s,
Walton Street, Oxford
14 July: I will be attending the opening day of the
Florence Nightingale Conference at Embley Park
19 July, 3 p.m, repeated at 5pm: Talk on Conspirator
at Buxton Festival Lee Wood Hotel www.buxtonfestival.co.uk
10 September: Talk on Madame Rachel of Bond Street at the 19th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network
15 September, 7p.m: Talk on Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, for the GB-Russia Society, at Pushkin House, London www.pushkinhouse.org
9 October, 4 p.m: Talk on ‘Two Crimean Heroines: Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale’ - as Guest Speaker at the autumn meeting of the History of Anaesthesia Society, Conference Centre, British Racing School, Newmarket www.web.me.com
11 October, time TBC Talk on Beautiful For Ever at Cheltenham Literature Festival
22 October: I will be one of the writer guests at the 14/4 Rainbow Trust Literary Dinner at the Harte and Garter Hotel Windsor www.facebook.com
1 November: Talk on Conspirator, Lenin in Exile for Dover & Deal DAFAS. Venue TBC
Weekend of 5- 7 November: I will be talking on the Romanovs at the Panorama of History Weekend at Charlecote Pheasant Hotel near Stratford. Details TBC
2011
11 January: Talk on Beautiful For Ever, Derby Ladies’ Luncheon Club
23 June -7 July: Guest lecturer on The Spirit of Adventure cruise to the Baltic and St Petersburg
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Helen at Althorp Park Literature Festival. Photo Alex Maguire
Mary Seacole by Albert Challen
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