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Book Club – Sat 19 Oct 2019

Book Club

Join the book club with a difference. A friendly bunch of people who are passionate about history, museums and books. Come along to any of the sessions for a lively discussion regardless of whether you like or even finished the book!

Included in museum admission. No need to book.

Book list:

Oct 19: Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney (Yorkshire Museum)

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poemBeowulfis one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath.

Event details

Price

Free with admission

Date

Saturday 19 October 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue

Yorkshire Museum,
Museum Gardens
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 7FR

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