|
Home page |
Travel |
|
|
|
|
Airships to Airspeed
6th Biennial
Nevil Shute Norway
Conference
York, U.K July 26th to
31st 2009
Edited
on
18/10/2008
Please bookmark this page. It will be updated
regularly as the Conference planning develops |
 |
|
Venue
|
York
Novotel
click on photo for more information |
York Minster
click on photo for more information |
|
The
6th biennial Nevil Shute Conference will be held in the historic city of
York, U.K. from 26th to 31st July 2009. This will be a unique
opportunity to discuss and discover more about the life and work of this
best-selling author in the area where he spent seven formative years
working on the R.100 airship, starting Airspeed and writing his early
novels.
Click
here to add your
name to our mailing list
|
|
Provisional Conference Programme |
|
Sunday 26th July |
Registration and Evening Welcome
Reception
|
|
Monday 27th July |
Opening of the Conference.
Full day of presentations and
discussion
|
|
Tuesday 28th July |
Excursion to Sherburn Aero Club and Yorkshire
Air Museum
A themed evening is planned!
|
|
Wednesday 29th July |
Full day of presentations
and discussion
|
|
Thursday 30th July |
Excursion day in and around the York
area.
Conference Banquet - Guest Speaker Mary Stopes-Roe (daughter of
Barnes Wallis)
|
|
Friday 31st July |
Final full day of presentations,
discussion, readings
Close of the
Conference
|
Films of Shute novels will be shown including an opportunity to see rare
footage of the building of R.100
|
|
For further information contact
John Anderson, Conference Manager, at
j.c.anderson@metronet.co.uk
|