George Borrow Society

News and Events

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Book Group

Our online Book Group meet once a month for lively discussions of Borrow's works. Currently we are slowly working our way through Wild Wales, having finished reading The Bible in Spain last year. All are welcome - please email peteransell@hotmail.com if you are interested, and he will send you further details, including the date and time of the next meeting (it's usually on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30 UK time), plus the text we will be discussing and the registration link for joining the Zoom meeting.

Next Book Group meetings - Monday 26th January, 7.30pm: Wild Wales, chapters 98-101.

Monday 23rd February, 7.30pm: Wild Wales, Chapters 102-109 (the end!)

Monday 23rd March, 7.30pm: to be announced!

2026 Forthcoming Events

The George Borrow Conference will take place this year in Norwich from Wednesday 29th April to Friday 1st May. The theme for this conference will be the influence of Norwich and Norfolk on George Borrow, and will feature visits to places in Norwich associated with Borrow, plus an optional trip to his birth-place, Dereham. There will also be guest speakers covering subjects as diverse as the Norwich School of Painting and the Image of the Gypsy in Literature. The venue will probably be The Maid’s Head hotel in Norwich. For further information please contact either John Day at dayefa@aol.com or Trish Gurney at patriciagurney@outlook.com, or look out for further announcements on the GBS website.

The ALS (Association of Literary Societies) Annual Conference will take place from Friday 22nd May to Sunday 24th May. It will be hosted by the Edward Thomas Fellowship at Bedales School nearPetersfield in Hampshire (see https://allianceofliterarysocieties.word-press.com/agm-weekend for further details). As Edward Thomas was the author of ‘George Borrow: The Man and His Books’ (1912), this should be a particularly interesting conference for Borrovians. The George Borrow Society is a member of the ALS, so all of our members are entitled to attend this conference free of charge, making their own arrangements for travel and accommodation.