Upcoming events this summer!
I’ve at last finalized my schedule of events for this summer, including an exciting new festival for me – at Evesham in August!
As last year, I’ll be kicking off the summer at the amazing Barnet Medieval Festival, this coming weekend, 10-11th June. Easily accessible from London and its surroundings (and just off the A1 / M25), this has become a fabulous festival commemorating the 1471 Battle of Barnet, which is going from strength to strength. Full details can be found here.
As usual, I’ll be bringing not only my own books to sign and sell, but those of several other authors, including Annette Carson, Philippa Langley, Toni Mount, JP Reedman, Brian Wainwright, Joanne Larner, Bridget Beauchamp, Alice Mitchell, Maryann Benbow, and Larner & Lamb.
Next up is the annual Middleham Celebrates Richard III Festival 1-2 July, held in and around King Richard’s favourite castle in the north – Middleham in Wensleydale.
The Richard III Society and the Northern Dales Richard III Group will also be there, the latter with details of its ‘Windows for the King’ appeal – raising funds to install seven beautiful windows in St Mary’s parish church in Barnard Castle, endowed as a collegiate church by King Richard. Details of the appeal can be found here.
Meanwhile on the Saturday afternoon, at 2pm, in the Middleham Key Centre Graham Mitchell, chair of the Yorkshire Branch, will be giving an illustrated 70-mins lecture on ‘Richard, the Northern King’ The talk covers Richard’s family background, his alleged crimes, what may have happened to his nephews, and the ‘Real Richard’. Entry is free but donations would be appreciated.
On 23rd-24th July I’ll be selling and signing books at Shrewsbury Medieval Festival 22nd-23rd July. A little outside my usual time period, but it was a fabulous weekend last year. Full details can be found here.
Copyright: Warren Rae PhotographyThen, new to my summer comes the Evesham Medieval Festival on 5-6th August. Again, rather outside my usual time period, but I can’t wait to make my first visit to what promises to be a super event. Full details can be found here.
Copyright: Battle of Evesham FestivalAnd then later in August I’ll be wending my way to the Bosworth Medieval Medley on 20th-21st August… The usual festival is taking a break for a year to improve its format and accessibility, but promises to return bigger and better in 2024. Meanwhile, the Medieval Medley will offer all the usual medieval fun – but without the stress of a big battle at the end (much like my next book 
). Full details (of the event, not my next book!) can be found here.
And watch out for me back at Middleham some time over the summer – it is, after all, almost impossible to keep me away! Hope to see you somewhere this summer
Alex Marchant is author of two books telling the story of the real King Richard III for children aged 10+, The Order of the White Boar and The King’s Man, and a third in the sequence, King in Waiting, which continues the adventures of the young members of the Order in the following years. A fourth book, Sons of York, was published in June 2022 and offers a ‘plausible theory’ for the fate of the ‘Princes in the Tower’.
Alex is also editor of Grant Me the Carving of My Name and Right Trusty and Well Beloved…, two anthologies of short fiction inspired by King Richard, sold in support of Scoliosis Association UK (SAUK).
Alex has also published a standalone timeslip novel for readers aged 10+, Time out of Time, relating the adventures of Allie Turner through a doorway into history found under layers of old wallpaper at ancient Priory Farm.
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