After a sell out event and a long waiting list earlier in the year we are delighted to repeat this talk.

Max Hunt tells the tragic story of how three gifted lives became intertwined in the autumn of 1895: Harry Maclean, a young officer cadet from Cradley in Herefordshire; A.E. Housman, a stoical professor of Latin at University College, London; and Oscar Wilde, the famous playwright who had been pilloried on charges of indecent behaviour. Max’s illustrated lecture will use poems, letters and biographies to show how a series of heart-breaking events unfolded. The talk will shed light on the intolerance and hypocrisy of the late-Victorian age.

Max is a firm Festival favourite and Secretary of the Housman Society. We are delighted to welcome him back for what is sure to be another fascinating talk.