Keri Jones went on a walking tour that guided many international visitors around Shaftesbury and, surprisingly, our world-famous Gold Hill wasn’t on the itinerary!

International Hardy Fans Tour

International Hardy Fans Tour
July 25, 2018

Keri Jones went on a walking tour that guided many international visitors around Shaftesbury and, surprisingly, our world-famous Gold Hill wasn’t on the itinerary!

On a warm Friday afternoon in July, fifty people stepped off a coach that pulled up into the Bell Street car park. The group had travelled together with the Thomas Hardy Society from Dorchester to see some of the places featured in the ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy’s, ‘Jude The Obscure’, first published in 1894.

Read Keri Jones article - here

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The Trumpet-Major THS Study Day 2020 CHANGE OF VENUE!
The Trumpet-Major THS Study Day 2020 CHANGE OF VENUE!
On 24/10/2020
Starts 09:15
Thomas Hardy Society Annual General Meeting 2020
Thomas Hardy Society Annual General Meeting 2020
On 24/10/2020
Starts 17:30 until 18:30
Stinsford and North Dorchester Walk
Stinsford and North Dorchester Walk
On 25/10/2020
Starts 10:00
Dr Hugh Epstein - The Nature of Awareness in Hardy's Fiction
Dr Hugh Epstein - The Nature of Awareness in Hardy's Fiction
On 28/11/2020
Starts 10:30 until 12:00
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Revised THS Programme 2020
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