Please donate

Buy Tickets 2025

 

Autumn Festival Tickets bookings are open!

In person and digital tickets and our great value passes are all available again this year.

Find out more about the Autumn Festival

September

sat13sep10:00 am11:00 amThe Bayeux Tapestry: The Big QuestionsJanina Ramirez and David Musgrove

sat13sep12:00 pm1:00 pmPeter FrankopanThe Silk Roads Revisited

sat13sep2:00 pm3:00 pmVince CableEclipsing the West: China & India Forging A New World?

sat13sep4:00 pm5:00 pmFrank SkinnerIn Conversation

sat13sep6:00 pm7:00 pmCelia Imrie & Fidelis Morgan

sat13sep8:00 pm9:00 pmAlice LoxtonEighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

sun14sep10:00 am11:00 amAethelstan: The First King of EnglandDavid Woodman & Andrew Armstrong

sun14sep12:00 pm1:00 pmAlan JohnsonHarold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man

sun14sep2:00 pm3:00 pmMichael HeseltineIn Conversation

sun14sep4:00 pm5:00 pmDoorway to the WorldOlivette Otele

sun14sep6:00 pm7:00 pmTracy BormanThe Stolen Crown: Death of the Tudor Dynasty

sun14sep7:30 pm8:30 pmA Marvellous History of MagicMagician Andi Gladwin, Richard Wiseman & Steve Knibbs

mon15sep10:00 am11:00 amCrusaders: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy LandSteve Tibble

mon15sep12:00 pm1:00 pmMargaret Paston: God’s Own GentlewomanDiane Watt

mon15sep2:00 pm3:00 pmForgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden TreasuresLuke Sherlock

mon15sep4:00 pm5:00 pmBBC Radio 4 Great Lives with Matthew ParrisMatthew Parris and Guests

mon15sep6:00 pm7:00 pmSceptred Isle: A New History of the 14th CenturyHelen Carr

mon15sep8:00 pm9:00 pmSir Francis Drake & the Secrets of the SevernMark Horton

tue16sep12:00 pm1:00 pmHiroshima MenIain MacGregor

tue16sep2:00 pm3:00 pmMission Europe! The Secret Women of the SOEKate Vigurs

tue16sep4:00 pm5:00 pmBletchley Park: Remembering World War TwoBletchley Veteran Ruth Bourne & Tessa Dunlop

tue16sep6:00 pm7:00 pmSebastian FaulksFrom Birdsong to Charlotte Gray

tue16sep8:00 pm9:00 pmShattered Lands: Unmaking the Indian EmpireSam Dalrymple

wed17sep10:00 am11:00 amSpice: The 16th Century Race That Changed the WorldRoger Crowley

wed17sep12:00 pm1:00 pmThomas More: Saint or Sinner?Joanne Paul

wed17sep2:00 pm3:00 pmHenry VIII's War on the Monasteries of Gloucester & the WestJames Clark

wed17sep4:00 pm5:00 pmBritain’s Greatest MegalithsMark Horton, Mike Pitts, & Fiona Robertson

wed17sep6:00 pm7:00 pmThe Forgotten History of Easter IslandMike Pitts

wed17sep8:00 pm9:00 pmSpycraft: From Elizabeth I to the RestorationNadine Akkerman & Pete Langman

thu18sep10:00 am11:00 amTolkien’s Gloucestershire: The Real Middle EarthAndy Meller

thu18sep12:00 pm1:00 pmMagna Carta Discovered!David Carpenter

thu18sep2:00 pm3:00 pmMuv: The Mitford Girls & MotherRachel Trethewey

thu18sep4:00 pm5:00 pmThe Legacy of The Civil War in GloucestershireRichard Graham

thu18sep6:00 pm7:00 pmGloucester’s Greatest BuildingJanina Ramirez, Andrew Armstrong & Phil Moss

thu18sep8:00 pm9:00 pmGloucester Rugby: 30 Years of GloryPete Glanville, Andy Deacon, James Forrester and Trevor Woodman

fri19sep10:00 am11:00 amWomen Who Ruled The World: 5000 Years of Female MonarchyElizabeth Norton

fri19sep11:45 am12:45 pmHeiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Slavery in the CaribbeanMiranda Kaufmann

fri19sep1:45 pm2:45 pmMargaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady at 100Iain Dale

fri19sep3:30 pm4:30 pmMalcolm X & the American Civil Rights MovementKehinde Andrews

fri19sep6:00 pm7:00 pmCan We Be Great Again? Why A Dangerous World Needs BritainJeremy Hunt

fri19sep8:00 pm9:00 pmMortimer’s A to Zs of English HistoryIan Mortimer

sat20sep10:00 am11:00 amThe Secret Wall Paintings of St Mary de CryptJanina Ramirez, Andrew Armstrong & Kirsty Hartsiotis

sat20sep12:00 pm1:00 pmThe Life and Times of the Great Gloucester Cathedral OrganJonathan Hope, Suzanne Aspden, James Atherton & Andrew Pitt

sat20sep2:00 pm3:00 pmAlice Robertsin conversation

sat20sep4:00 pm5:00 pmLyse Doucet A People’s History of Afghanistan

sat20sep6:00 pm7:00 pmEngland, Scotland and James I: The Mirror of Great BritainClare Jackson

sat20sep7:30 pm8:30 pmCider Night!Andrew Meller

sat20sep8:00 pm9:00 pmUnderstanding The Middle East: The Great BetrayalFawaz Gerges

sun21sep10:00 am11:00 amAlexandria: The City That Changed The WorldIslam Issa

sun21sep11:15 am11:45 amMembers' Breakfastwith Janina Ramirez (GHF Members only)

sun21sep12:00 pm1:00 pmLegenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped EuropeJanina Ramirez

sun21sep2:00 pm3:00 pmGreg JennerThe Stone Age Runs Wild

sun21sep4:00 pm5:00 pmDavid Olusogain conversation

sun21sep4:00 pm5:00 pmTea with the TudorsKirstie Bingham

sun21sep6:00 pm7:00 pmMavericks: Britain's Secret Mission to the Caspian SeaNick Higham

sun21sep8:00 pm10:00 pmWitch Night! Blackfriars BewitchedJanina Ramirez & Marion Gibson

October

sat25oct6:30 pm7:30 pmPutin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War | The Winstone TalkMartin Sixsmith

Join our
mailing list

Sign up for the latest news & event updates.