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This year’s theme is ‘The Great Outdoors’.

As always, there is a full and varied programme, including theatre, puppetry, crafting, trails, dance, games, lectures and more. On many places there will be Alice in Wonderland themed family and kids activities. In Christ Church library you can find an exhibition of the manuscript and other rare material relating to Dodgson and to the Liddell family. Local historian and author Mark Davies will guide a walk through the Oxford of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice, and the Lewis Carroll Society will organize three talks:

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The talks are organized by the New Forest Heritage Trust. Both evenings consist of two short talks with a glass of wine in between the two.

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This year, Alice’s Day will be held on July 2nd. Once more, there is an extensive programme. It includes fun activities, like a Mad Tea Party, games, workshops, a cupcake decorating competition, and more. There are also exhibitions, walks, and talks, some of which are organized by the Lewis Carroll Society.

You are invited to dress for the occasion, so pick your favorite Wonderland or Looking-Glass world character!

Date: 2 July 2022
Location: Oxford, UK
More information & full programme: https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/about-us/alices-day-1

It’s not a coincident that “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” takes place on May 4th as well. You can discover this if you read the story closely, as several clues are given in the text!

Gillian Beer is retired Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, and former president of Clare Hall. She published several books, among which “Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll”.

Date: Saturday 28 May 2022
Time: 18.00 (British Summer Time) / 19.00 Central European Summer Time
Location: online
Price: £28 full price / £23 students and CAMcard holders
More information: https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/book-online-study-sessions/alice-dialogue

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on 27 January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was his parent’s third child. Carroll died just before his 66th birthday.