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Wednesday 9th December 2027Where: The Pump Room, Buxton SK17 6BH
Advance ticket only
Doors open 6.30
Start 7pm
Book Launch with Kathryn Ecclestone – Living with Vera Brittain – a Journey Through Buxton’s Golden Age
In 1935, Vera Brittain was enjoying international acclaim for her First World War memoir Testament of Youth. Returning to Buxton for the first time in twenty years, she visited the war memorial where the names of her beloved brother Edward and boys she grew up with are inscribed.
Inspired by living in the former home of Buxton’s most significant resident, Kathryn Ecclestone explores life for wealthy middle class families like Vera’s in what was once a booming, fashionable, prosperous town. It was, as Vera described, an “age of tranquil comfort and rich materialism we thought would go on for ever”.
In 1914, war crashed into that privileged, cossetted world seemingly without warning. Four years later, Vera, her social circle and their servants mourned sons, brothers, husbands and fathers and Buxton’s Edwardian golden age was gone for good.
Kathryn Ecclestone is a retired Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield and a well-known author in that field
All event proceeds supports the charitable activities of the Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust.
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