Loree Westron interviews author and S&C Community Reporter Helen Salsbury about her debut novel, a contemporary coming-of-age story influenced by Victorian Gothic literature. Loree Westron (LW): I’ve known you for a number of years, Helen, [… read more ]
Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural History, at the University of Portsmouth, shares findings from his research on how people in Britain historically have used folklore and urban legends to adjust to the experience of city [… read more ]
1500 people attended the first ever Subaquatic Steampunk weekend in Gosport an event that looks set to get bigger every year. Helen Salsbury was invited to perform a subaquatic tale at this event as a [… read more ]
S&C’s roving reviewer Emily Priest visits Boathouse 4 for their Summer Festival and finds a ship that has already sailed. Aiming to celebrate traditional and heritage crafts, Boathouse 4 welcomed the public into the Historic Dockyard, [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s very first Holmes Fest is coming up on 28th June, celebrating the world’s most famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, and their relationship to the city. Holmes Fest host and [… read more ]
Playwright and songwriter John Bartlett re-tells a darkly comic anecdote his grandmother recounted to him about her school days in late Victorian Portsmouth. “With moi hand on meself what ‘ave oi ‘ere? This is moi sweaty-boxer moi souvenir [… read more ]
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