We are delighted to announce that the first four books that Alison Uttley wrote in this series are being re-issued in April by Templar Publishing. They are beautifully produced, still the size for little hands as Alison Uttley always wanted and competitively priced at £5.99 each. The spring titles are: The Squirrel the Hare and…

Traveller in Time: gender, national identity and the formation of childrens British History Dr.Dolly Mackinnon, University of Queensland, Australia. We are delighted to have made contact with Dr.Mackinnon and can recommend her recent article in Women’s History Review, Nov.2011. She analyses ‘this overlooked work’ and redresses Uttley’s absence from the historiography. She concludes: “Uttley was…

Alison Uttley Festival This highly successful event was held at Manor Farm, Dethick, the home of Simon and Gilly Groom, who kindly opened their home and conference room to visitors. Manor Farm so captured the imagination of Alison Uttley that she made it the site of her novel, A Traveller in Time. In Tudor times,…

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On 30 October Denis Judd gave a talk at Cromford on Alison Uttley and Florence Nightingale; two strong women with local Derbyshire connections. This was part of the very varied World Heritage Sites Discovery Days programme in the Derwent Valley, and marked the centenary of Florence Nightingale’s death. Simon Groom’s BBC TV short profile of…

Professor Denis Judd gave a talk on the subject of how a (nearly) local girl, Alison Uttley, became a best selling and world famous author to an enthralled and responsive full-house audience at the prestigious Buxton Festival. He explained that a key to understanding Alison’s immensely creative but rather dominating spirit was her belief that:…