✣ Join Sara Read (author of The Gossips’ Choice and Lecturer at Loughborough University) and Barbara Cooke (Lecturer in Creative Writing, Loughborough University) for a FREE creative writing workshop focussing on an historical object.

** Now with a chance to WIN one of FOUR signed hardback books on the night **

✣ Creative histories are written by thinking about an object and the stories it could tell. Our focus is the birthing chair (like the one in the drawing below, and the one featured in the National Civil War Centre collection). This object was used throughout the history to help women give birth in an upright position.

✣ After a short introduction to the object, and viewing of the seventeenth and nineteenth-century birthing chairs close up, you will have the opportunity to develop some ‘flash fiction’.

WHERE: National Civil War Centre, Newark, NG24 1JY

WHEN: 28 February 2020, registration, 5.30; workshop, 5.45-7.15 pm

BOOKING: Attendance at the event is free, but please book in advance