What’s on

Special Collections
From Rags to Witches: the grim tale of children's stories

Friday 04 May - Sunday 26 August

Once upon a time, fairy tales were not for children. From a bloodthirsty birth in a sinister European forest, to benign bedtime tales where “Children with their Milk
are fed with the Tales of Witches, Hobgoblins, Prophecies and Miracles” this exhibition traces the developm
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Workshop: Storyboarding Picture Books

Wednesday 09 May

Author-illustrator Carol Adlam will take you through the building blocks of creating a picture book for children, focusing on storyboarding and producing thumbnail layouts for your work.
Special Collections
The Uses of Fairytales: Enchanting Ideologies and Radical Transformations

Thursday 10 May

Rachel Palfreyman, Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, discusses how fairy tales have been interpreted
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Film: The Company of Wolves (Cert 18)

Wednesday 13 June

A horror-fantasy film based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carter’s 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber.
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Invisible Storytellers: the remarkable role of translators in British Children's Literature

Thursday 05 July

Gillian Lathey, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton London, will introduce some of these invisible storytellers and pay homage to their neglected craft.
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Child Readers and their Books in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Thursday 26 July

Colin Heywood, Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham, focuses on the society and culture in which children were raised in the 19th century.
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From Pirates to Porcupines: Creating Magical Children's Book Characters

Saturday 04 August

Join us for a celebration of the magical characters that inhabit children illustrated books in a fun workshop aimed at children and families.

What’s on

Friday 04 May - Sunday 26 August

Wednesday 09 May

Thursday 10 May

Wednesday 13 June

Thursday 05 July

Thursday 26 July

Saturday 04 August