Library event Southwold Literary Festival: Robert Colls in Conversation with Ronald Binns
Join us for a talk with professor Robert Colls and author Ronald Binns about George Orwell's legacy.
- Date
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Sat 14 Nov 2026
- Timp
- 11:30 – 12:30
- Place
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Southwold Arts Centre, Cumberland Road, Southwold, IP18 6JP
About this event
Join us for a talk with professor Robert Colls and author Ronald Binns at Southwold Arts Centre as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Robert and Ronald will be talking to us about their books on the life of George Orwell.
Tickets are £7.55 each. Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 or online pe TicketSource.
About Robert Colls:
Robert Colls was professor of English History at the University of Leicester before joining the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, also in Leicester. He has written widely on modern British history, for The New Statesman and for the Literary Review, as well as for other newspapers and journals, on television and radio including, most recently, The Rest is History podcast.
His This Sporting Life won the Aberdare Prize for sport history writing. His Identity of England, George Orwell English Rebel și This Sporting Life were Books of the Year in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The New Statesman and the BBC History Magazine.
George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an original account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950.
About Ronald Binns:
Ronald Binns is the author of three biographical books: Orwell in Southwold, Gascoigne: The Life of a Tudor Poetși Elizabeth, Shakespeare and the Castle: The Story of the Kenilworth Revels.
Southwold Literary Festival is a partnership between Southwold Library, Southwold Arts Centre and Southwold Books. All events take place at Southwold Arts Centre in St Edmund’s Hall.
Dates and times
- Timp
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11:30 – 12:30
- Sat 14 Nov 2026
Booking information
Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 or by visiting the Southwold Library TicketSource page.
Tickets can also be booked at Southwold Arts Centre, either in person or by phoning 01502 722572.
Accesibilitate
- Wheelchair accessible
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