Category: Events
22 February 2023
Shandy Hall to open in April 2023
April 2023 will be the 50th year of Shandy Hall opening as a public museum, and we will be bringing our opening date forward to April 1st this season, a month earlier than usual.
22 February 2023
Estonian Tristram Shandy
There is now an Estonian translation of Tristram Shandy, by Kersti Unt, which has been kindly sent for our collection. More here (in Estonian)
5 July 2022
Locke Unlocked – A Look at John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
This display at Shandy Hall can be viewed free by appointment until 30 September. This display pays tribute to philosopher John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) by offering a new way to explore a revered text. Six central ideas in the Essay are elucidated using (mostly) paired objects. The six vignettes show three […]
28 April 2022
Martin Rowson’s ‘The Waste Land’
2022 – The Centenary of the publication of The Waste Land, T.S Eliot’s poetic response to the aftermath of The First World War. But what does it mean? Join detective Chris Marlowe on the case, in Martin Rowson’s Raymond-Chandleresque graphic novel version, to investigate (and parody) the great modernist classic. Rowson’s original artwork for the […]
8 June 2021
Alas Poor Yorick! The Reburial of Sterne’s skull
On This Day 8th June in 1969, the skull and femur of Laurence Sterne were reinterred at Coxwold, outside the church where he once preached. The bones were rescued from their original grave in London as the site was to be built over. Sterne had become his alter ego. Alas Poor Yorick!
31 March 2021
A Grand Folio – Tom Phillips exhibition opens
A Grand Folio – Tom Phillips exhibition at Shandy Hall – Our first exhibition after the lockdown periods displayed Tom Phillips artworks for the new Folio Society edition of Tristram Shandy, and many other of his works on literary classics. See more on our past Exhibitions pages.
