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Alice’s Day is an annual event in Oxford, UK and will be held on 1 July. The theme for this year is ‘Games & Puzzles’. The Society will be organizing several talks around this theme, but is still looking for a speaker for the talk ‘A great huge game of Chess’.

Do you have a good knowledge of both chess and of Through the Looking Glass and feel you can give an illustrated talk combining the two subjects? Please contact them a.s.a.p..

Alice Liddell, the girl that inspired the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ tales, was born on 4 May 1852 – that’s exactly 165 years ago today. Let’s celebrate her birthday!

The conference is organised around the following areas:

• Lewis Carroll (life, journals, other works, etc.)
• Alice in translation
• Adaptations of Alice
• Alice in the (post-)postmodern era

The programme (pdf) for all three days is now available.
The official languages of the conference are both English and French.

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Mr. Dodgson is of course the author of Alice in Wonderland books, who used ‘Lewis Carroll’ as his pen name. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832. He died in 1898, of pneumonia.

The story arose at 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), was on a boat trip with a friend, Alice, and her sisters Lorina and Edith. Alice grew restless and begged Dodgson for a story “with lots of nonsense in it”. So started the famous tale, which was continued on further outings, and was later expanded for publication.

The book was first printed on 4 July 1865, exactly 3 years after the famous boat trip, but this printing was rejected by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel. The new publishing date was set on 18 November 1865.

Read more about the origins of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ story

So let’s all put on a silly top hat and act like it! 🙂