TALK: Along the Borders with award winning travel writer Richard Collett
Schedule
Fri, 15 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Malmesbury Town Hall | Chippenham, EN
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‘Timely, relevant and highly engaging’Malmesbury Civic Trust are very pleased to welcome award winning travel writer and author Richard Collett to Malmesbury Town Hall on Friday 15th May at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm) to deliver a new talk: ‘Along the Borders – A search for what divides and unites the British Isles’.
This talk is based on Richard’s new book ‘Along the Borders’, being published by Penguin in April, which chronicles his multi-year journey, by bus, boat, train, plane, car and on foot, exploring through hundreds of miles of borderlands, old and new, including Cornwall, the Welsh Marches, the Midlands, the Anglo-Scottish border and the Scottish Highlands. It’s not just a story of the United Kingdom’s borders and boundaries; it’s about the people that live there. By looking to the borderlands, we can discover the essence of what Britain is and what it isn’t. What it has been and what it can be. Ultimately, it is a story about how our borders and boundaries are bridged, and how they bring us together.
It will resonate here in Malmesbury. Our modern town was shaped by our place as an influential Anglo-Saxon border town between the Kingdom of the West Saxons and Mercia and Richard will highlight what this has meant for our local history. He knows us well. Just last September he wrote a major article for BBC Travel on the Athelstan Pilgrim Way.
Tickets are just £10 each and can be purchased at http://malmesburycivictrust.eventbrite.com/ (booking fee applies) and in store at Barn Owl Books.
We are pleased to be presenting this talk with the support of Barn Owl Books and Athelstan 1100. Richard will be pleased to sign copies of his book after the talk. ‘Along the Borders’ can be pre-ordered from Barn Owl Books https://www.barnowlbooks.co.uk/events-and-whats-on and will be for sale on the night.
All the funds raised from the talk will help Malmesbury Civic Trust support good causes in Malmesbury.
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