The Charleston Festival 17th - 26th May
At this literary festival taking place at Charleston, the former country home of Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, art, life and ideas rub shoulders with themes ranging from the Great Reform Bill of 1832 to the Scandal of 1963, the industrialist Josiah Wedgewood to the discreet charm of Apple's designs, from Jane Austen to the birth of Modernism in 1922, from early balloonists to transatlantic travel, from midwives to Mark with writers (of course) taking centre stage.
http://www.charleston.org.uk
The Boswell Festival 17th - 19th May
The world's only biography festival, named after the biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, the Boswell Festival takes place at Auchinleck House, his former family home. The 2013 Festival will feature BBC Presenter James Naughtie, Actor John Sessions among others and will include a performance of John Byrne's play Bohemian Rhapsody.
http://www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk
The Hay Festival 23rd May - 2nd June
In the words of former US President Bill Clinton 'the Woodstock of the mind' gathers people together in the beautiful Wye Valley in the town of Hay, in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons national park, to think about the world as it is and to imagine how it might be in a big conversation about discovery and intellectual adventure sharing stories with great international novelists, film-makers, historians, poets, philosophers, environmentalists and scientists. At night they promise to party in the company of comedians and musicians. The Festival, which is one of the largest and best known in the UK, is in its 26th year and tickets can be booked online and the Programme menu can be downloaded as a pdf.
http://www.thehayfestival.co.uk
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