Speaking: Hay Festival, 1-2 June 2011 AAA

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900821Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and job sheets (schedules) on Greer participation in the Hay Festival, 1-2/6/2011. Greer talked about endangered English bluebells, 1/6/2011, and gave poetry lecture, 2/6/2011, titled 'The Forgotten Tradition: The Psalms and English Poetry', for total fee of £3000. Includes Contributor Release Form, permitting recording; bundle of print outs of information on bluebells and plants; laser print of typescript, 11 pages, unnumbered, begins: "THE VULGATE St Jerome in 4th century..."; bundle of photocopies of psalms, some annotated; print out of blog by Pete Wedderburn, 'Leave our dogs alone, Germaine Greer', The Telegraph, 3/6/2011 with readers' comments (appears to be response to 1/6/2011 talk on bluebells, in which Greer claimed that dog faeces are causing the demise of the British bluebell). Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Peter Florence, Hay Festival; Rhodri Jones, Artists Manager, Hay Festival; Heather Salisbury, Hay Festival. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Festivals; Hay-on-Wye Festival; Psalms; Poetry--History and Criticism; Wild flowers; Plants--ClassificationAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0024

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date1 February 2011-24 February 2012

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Speaking: Hay Festival, 1-2 June 2011 AAA