In partnership with Kenilworth Arts Festival. Free event in Abbey Fields Join poet-technologist Chris Jelley for a special trail around Abbey Fields, based on 'The Lost Words' a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. You may well have already come across this extraordinary book; a combination of nature poetry and lavish illustration. The story behind The Lost Words is that the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed from its pages a host of nature-related words, such as ‘otter’ and ‘acorn’, ‘conker’,…

Come and hear historian Stephen Spinks talk about one of the most controversial Kings in English history: Edward II, the man who brought England to the brink of Civil War. Stephen Spinks argues that Edward and the later murdered Piers Gaveston were lovers, not merely 'brothers in arms'. Influenced by successive favorites and with a desire for personal vengeance, his rule became highly personalised and unstable. His own wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom which forced abdication; the first…