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"NB There will be very few dates in this history": Jane Austen's History of England (Southampton).

"NB There will be very few dates in this history": Jane Austen's History of England (Southampton).

May 4, 2025    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Costumed guided walk in the company of the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre. Join our costumed guides and take a walk around Old Southampton. Discover [...]
Trafalgar Day Costumed Guided Walk

Trafalgar Day Costumed Guided Walk

May 4, 2025    
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Walk in the company of the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre. Join our costumed guides to hear Naval stories, including links to Admiral Nelson and [...]
Jane Austen's Showtunes: A musical journey through the songs of Charles Dibdin.

Jane Austen's Showtunes: A musical journey through the songs of Charles Dibdin.

June 5, 2025    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“With out Music, Life would be a blank to me” Emma This performance celebrates one of Austen's favourite composers, Southampton's own Charles Dibdin. Talented local [...]
The Stinking Fish Of Southampton

The Stinking Fish Of Southampton

June 24, 2025 - June 26, 2025    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish [...]
The Reverend Shapcotts Historical Armada Pageant or Hola! Has anybody seen our ships?

The Reverend Shapcotts Historical Armada Pageant or Hola! Has anybody seen our ships?

August 3, 2025    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Reverend Shapcott is on a mission! The vicars of St Marys and Peartree have been receiving too much attention for their historical pageants, so [...]
Pattens to Peartree

Pattens to Peartree

August 9, 2025    
All Day
Recreating Jane Austen’s walk from Southampton to visit her friends, the Lance family of Chessel House, with a stop at the historic Peartree Church - [...]
Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing - A Black History Month Hidden History Walk

Sugar, Slaves & Seabathing - A Black History Month Hidden History Walk

October 12, 2025    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Southampton in Jane Austen’s day was a watering place famed for sea bathing, but it was also a town dominated, in politics, by the ‘West [...]

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