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One of the first live events of the summer will offer families the opportunity to travel through history. the perfect antidote to memories of the past year.
Tickets go on sale today for the Chalke Valley History Festival, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail.
As well as a stellar line-up of speakers, the event – starting on June 23, two days after the date when nearly all legal limits on social contact are due to end – offers glamping, live music, story-telling, food from fine dining to fish and chips and a bar, all in the idyllic English countryside.
Young festival-goers can enjoy Tudor cooking lessons and sword school.
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In her introduction to this book, the philosophy professor Kathleen Stock describes herself as a ‘heretic’. Yet the case she makes will seem uncontroversial to most: she argues that male and female humans exist, that humans are unable to change sex, and that sex is important in the life one leads, both directly (through physical differences such as strength or pregnancy) and indirectly (through the ways people are treated because of their sex).
Holding such opinions, though, has seen Stock condemned as an enemy of the LGBT movement (bizarrely, given she’s a lesbian herself). She’s suffered personal attacks and serious efforts to derail her career because of beliefs that would be entirely mainstream outside academia and activism.
Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: Festivals and outdoor events for a summer of fun.
Fans of film, fireworks, music, vintage fashion and more can all find the perfect summer festival to attend as lockdown eases.
In May, Bath will be among the first places to welcome back visitors with a series of live events.
Dressed to impress at the Nostalgia Festival in Stockton Park, Wiltshire
Socially distanced audiences can sit below the high ceilings of the Georgian Assembly Rooms to hear all 16 works that Beethoven wrote for string quartets, or step inside Bath Abbey and the unlikely setting of the old Green Park railway station for concerts by the festival orchestra, founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1959.