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SUMMARY:Frank Tallis – Wise: Finding purpose\, meaning and wisdom beyond the midpoint of life
DESCRIPTION:We are living longer and\, thanks to medical advances\, our lifespan after the middle years continues to extend. But how do you age wisely? How do you remain psychologically healthy and fully engagedgiven the immense and daunting challenges of later life – regrets\, loss\, disappointments\, physical deterioration\, and mortality? \n\n\n\nFrom ancient Greece to the 21st century\, philosophers and psychologists have considered these questions\, and remarkably\, their opinions converge. There is a single essential task – integration – that once accomplished\, equips us to cope with the many problems we are likely to encounter as we get older. What’s more\, their insights are supported by cutting-edge neuroscience. \n\n\n\nFrank Tallis examines ways to embrace and accept our mortality when our brains are hard-wired to resist it\, how we can achieve meaning in our lives\, and how we can understand the passage of time and make the most of it. \n\n\n\nDr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. His books include The Incurable Romantic\, The Actof Living and Mortal Secrets: Freud\, Vienna and The Discovery of the Modern Mind\, which was a Times book of the year. \n\n\n\nDr Frank Tallis will be in conversation with Laura Kerr. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Sculpture by the Lakes \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/frank-tallis-wise-finding-purpose-meaning-and-wisdom-beyond-the-midpoint-of-life/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Olia Hercules – Strong Roots: A Ukranian Family History Through War\, Exile and Hope
DESCRIPTION:‘I am writing this story without knowing its end: it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die. I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand.’ \n\n\n\nStrong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification\, to Olia’s grandmother’s deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin\, to her Aunt Zhenia’s school protest\, to her own parents’ flight from Ukraine when their town was occupied in 2022. This is an ode to the land\, to ideas of home and belonging\, and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations – the tang of sour cherries\, the best way to make borsch. It is an account of resilience in the hardest of circumstances. Strong Roots brims with hope and grief. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations struggling and surviving through war\, peace\, invasion and exile. It is an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots. \n\n\n\nBorn in Kakhovka\, in southern Ukraine\, Olia Hercules trained as a chef and worked for Ottolenghi and as a recipe developer and food stylist. After the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Olia co-founded a global initiative to raise money for Ukraine #CookForUkraine\, which has raised over £2 million to date. Olia is the author of four cookbooks\, including Mamushka: Recipes From Ukraine and Beyond. \n\n\n\nOlia Hercules will be in conversation with Jenny Devitt. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by The Gardens Group. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/olia-hercules-strong-roots-a-ukranian-family-history-through-war-exile-and-hope/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:David Lascelles – Out of Colditz
DESCRIPTION:A never-before-told perspective on the British experience at Colditz – one of themost infamous sites in Nazi Germany. \n\n\n\nThe grandson of a King\, the son of the Viceroy of India\, Churchill’s nephew. All held captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp\, they were the Prominente: scions of the British establishment\, and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders. \n\n\n\nAs a German defeat loomed\, the SS head of the POW camps Gottlob Berger made a pivotal decision: he would disobey direct orders and spare their lives. ‘Please remember what I have done for you when the war ends\,’ he asked. This Nazi overseer\, who would later be convicted of war crimes\, held their future in his hands. \n\n\n\nEighty years later\, David Lascelles – the son of George\, Earl of Harewood\, who would never have been born if his father had been executed – traces the Prominentes’ extraordinary journey and wonders who Gottlob Berger was and what motivated his fateful decision: compassion? Remorse? Or self-interest?David Lascelles\, 8th Earl of Harewood\, is a BAFTA-winning film and television producer. He is one of the founders of Heirs of Slavery\, a campaign group that seeks to redress the horrors of the Transatlantic slave trade. He lives in Yorkshire. Out of Colditz is his second book. \n\n\n\nDavid Lascelles will be in conversation with David Swann. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by NFU Mutual\, Dorchester. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/david-lascelles-out-of-colditz/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Shulman – Black Coffee and Red Lipstick
DESCRIPTION:Weaving ideas about our domestic and daily life with thoughts on style and the way wepresent ourselves\, Alexandra Shulman combines anecdotes and observations from 25 years spent editing British Vogue and her current life as a freelance writer and commentator. She draws onher experiences as a magazine editor but also a mother\, daughter\, sibling\, girlfriend\,housekeeper and lover of shopping. \n\n\n\nAlexandra left her job at Vogue in 2017 to embark on a different way of life and while thisis in no way a book of self-discovery it does touch on the question of things or patterns ofbehaviour that make us who we are? \n\n\n\nFrom her quest for the perfect eyeliner\, to why picnics are so delightful and our hair matters\, friendship\,siblings\, gardening and grey hair will be explored with Alexandra’s characteristic witand incisiveness. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Shulman was British Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief from 1992 to 2017 and was awarded the CBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday\, a contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines and a Vice President of the London Library. She has written two novels\, Can We Still Be Friends and The Parrots  and Inside Vogue: The Diary of My 100th Year. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Shulman will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/alexandra-shulman-black-coffee-and-red-lipstick/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Fennell – Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War\, 1931-1941
DESCRIPTION:Between 1931 and 1949\, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective security\, world order and the internal cohesion of states across the globe. At the heart of these crises was a world war that shook the foundations of global power\, a watershed moment in the history of the Twentieth Century. Collapse is the first volume of an authoritative trilogy that tells the story of the Second World War through this international lens\, covering theatres of war in multiple continents and analysing worldwide trends. \n\n\n\nCombining military\, political\, social and economic history\, Professor Jonathan Fennell explores the first part of this “long war”\, from 1931-1942\, through exciting new sources that explore what it really meant to live through this violent time. Using an innovative approach which explores the personal alongside the political\, the global alongside the local\, he shows how a world that many considered civilised collapsed into barbarity. \n\n\n\nThrough immersive storytelling and a cast of characters and communities\, Collapse links the home and battle fronts and ties together the stories of great campaigns with the dramatic political and social changes of the Twentieth Century\, and in doing so\, transforms our understanding of this monumental conflict. \n\n\n\nJonathan Fennell is Professor of the History of War and Society at King’s College London\, where he is Director of Research at the Defence Studies Department\, Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War and Co-Founder and President of the international scholarly society\, the Second World War Research Group. His most recent monograph\, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War\, won the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2020\, and also the Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jonathan-fennell-collapse-a-global-history-of-the-second-world-war-1931-1941/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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