Next month Lichfield Cathedral’s resident orchestra, the Darwin Ensemble Chamber Orchestra will be offering an altogether more thoughtful evening’s entertainment than the usual Valentine’s Day blockbuster concerts.
Local playwright Philip Preece unveiled his latest work at Lichfield Garrick last night, a fast-moving double bill – Almost Human and Precious Jewel – the first set in the present, and
On Friday the Lichfield Festival welcomed the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis, in a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. With Liverpool’s
The George & Dragon pub on Beacon Street is throwing a Bonfire party on November 5th in order to raise money for Macmillan nurses.
The pub is planning to take
With a Booker Prize shortlist dominated by historical fiction, there can be no doubt about the appeal of Barbara Ewing’s seventh novel, The Fraud, which she is set to
The author of a leading biography of Samuel Johnson will be among the star attractions at the Lichfield Literature festival.
It’s thanks to Boswell’s Life of Johnson that
Lichfield’s independent wine merchants, Worth Brothers, has both relaunched its website and announced a series of tasting events including an evening at Chandler’s Bar and Restaurant on Tuesday
The answer to a variety of mathematical puzzles will be on offer when the Lichfield Literature Festival kicks off.
So if you’ve ever wondered ‘What is the ham sandwich
The discovery of buried treasure by Mr Terry Herbert while metal detecting in a field near Lichfield has certainly captured the public imagination. Examples from the hoard of Anglo-Saxon
Last night the Johnson Society welcomed the Bishop of Lichfield, The Rt Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, as its new president at its annual birthday supper in the Guildhall. This year the
The official launch of Dr Johnson’s 300th birthday celebrations went off with a bang last night with a lantern parade, a son et lumière display, projected onto the side
RN Clarke’s retrospective of landscape paintings, currently on show at Lichfield Cathedral (until September 17th), is a potent selection of ideas and influences.
Lichfield-born Clarke’s vision is
