The Charles Kingsley Society with Elena Stevens, a Southampton research student, have produced a Key Stage 2 online teaching resource on child labour.

This was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and is available for download.

MassMotion is a sophisticated modelling tool used internationally by planners and architects to study people flows through a wide range of environments,

Charles  Kingsley Society is  supported by Oasys,  the  software  company that developed the product and who have  granted us a licence. Normally used on much larger projects, this  versatile  tool is helping us predict flow control and ticketing strategies for the ck200 festival 14-15 June next.

More information about MassMotion can be found here

Charles Kingsley 200 Festival Pageant – The History of Child Labour in Our Community    has been awarded a grant  by the Heritage lottery Fund.

The pageant is a joint project with  Charles Kingsley Society,  King’s College London, The Museum of English Rural Life  and Charles Kingsley Primary School, Eversley.

Details of the pageant will appear on the festival website ck200.live

 

 

The festival box office  where you can pre-book events for next year is now open

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Quintin Beer (conductor), Julia Stutfield (Cantata Dramatica), Dan Rootham (grandson of the composer) with David Lister (chairman) at the site of the  CK200 festival where the production of Andromeda will take place.

 

9th July,  Graham, Peter and I attended the decision day of the Cultural, Community and Activity Grants of Hampshire County Council – Peter had applied for funding in March this year. We were supported by Councillor David Simpson who also spoke on our behalf. The banners were used (photo attached) and helped us in our mission to get some funding from HCC. The decision on our application has been deferred and we have been invited to meet HCC and discuss further. However, the general view was that they are minded to help as much as funds permit.

The Committee  has  registered The Charles Kingsley Society as the formal name of the body that will run the  Charles Kingsley 200 Festival in 2019; and in addition other activities beyond the festival, so that there may be an enduring legacy, centred in Eversley, to celebrate his life and work.

From Anthony Bateman

Many thanks for the update.  We have added a link to your website and some basic introductory content on Visit Hampshire website in our Famous People section  https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/famous-people

We’ll look to develop more content as your programme develops.  This can include specific events in our What’s On https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/whats-on  when you have dates pinned down and more content on a specific page.

Andrew Bateman
Tourism Manager
Economy, Transport and Environment
Hampshire County Council

Dr Jonathan Conlin BA Oxon MA PhD Cantab FRHistS FHA  has joined the committee to curate our planned series of Talks to be held during the festival.

Jon’s interest in Charles Kingsley led to his Hawarden workshop last July, where he gathered a   multinational group  academics  committed  to researching  the life of CK.

Jon is currently  a senior lecturer at Southampton University and a more detailed biography and list of published works can be found here.

Dr Conlin brings great insight and plenty of exciting ideas to our team and we are delighted that he has agreed to join the Charles Kingsley 200 project.

Peter Ormrod