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Last updated 12th November 2024

January 2024
18th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Eaglescliffe Golf Club 
25th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Wokingham Borough Libraries virtual talk 
February 2024
10th Monday is Wash Day Macclesfield Library 
15th Opening The Wardrobe Yarm Ladies Luncheon Club
18th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Beit Terezin via Zoom
27th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Knaresborough Men's Forum
29th The Gentlewoman's Wardrobe - Fashion in the Era of Anne Lister Poynton WI
March 2024
3rd Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
7th Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Gateshead Central Library
12th Top of the Frocks - the 1980s show Youlgrave WI 
21st Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Kiplin Hall 
22nd Bumps, Babbies & Bairns The Word, South Shields 
26th Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Wallsend Library 
28th * 100 YEARS OF FASHION * Exhibition launch at Kirkleatham Museum 
April 2024
3rd The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sydney Jewish Museum virtual author talk 
11th Monday is Wash Day Middlethorpe Hall 
13th Wool, Jet & Whalebone Whitby Museum 
16th Monday is Wash Day Malbank Group WI
17th Monday is Wash Day Virtual presentation 
24th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz University of Georgia virtual book club discussion 
26th The Frock Shop - the 1960s show Dementia Forward fundraising event 
May 2024
1st Divine Deco - the Art of the Dressmaker The Cloud Group of WIs
7th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Pontefract Library 
9th The Gentlewoman's Wardrobe - Fashion in the Era of Anne Lister Market Weighton WI
21st Top of the Frocks - the 1980s show Killingworth Library
23rd Silk & Shoddy - the Victorian Woman's Wardrobe Gawthorpe Hall
June 2024
1st The Gentlewoman's Wardrobe  Yorkshire and Humber Embroiderers
8th Tracing Lost Lives Threads Textile Festival
12th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Widnes WI
15th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz West Acre Theatre
20th Mary Quant - Fashion Icon Kirkleatham Museum 
27th Silk & Roses Kiplin Hall 7pm 
29th The Secret Life of Knitting Biddulph Town Hall 
July 2024
6/7 The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Festival Le Château se Livre, Château de La Roche-Guyon
13th Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Bankfield Museum 
14th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Belsize Square Synagogue  
20th Silk & Roses Norwich Costume & Textile Association
26th Ladies of Leisure NYWFWI 
August 2024
1st Ladies of Leisure Tickhill Community Library
10th Ladies of Leisure FEVA festival, Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough 
13th The Dressmakers of Auschwitz FEVA festival, Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough 
15th Silk & Roses East Keswick Flower Club
21st The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Shrine of Remembrance/Melbourne Holocaust Museum 
September 2024
12th 100 Years of Fashion Kirkleatham Museum 
14th Tracing Lost Lives Derwent Valley Bridge library
20th Ladies of Leisure The Word, South Shields 
21st Bronte Festival of Women's Writing Lucy Adlington discussing The Red Ribbon & The Dressmakers of Auschwitz 
22nd The Dressmakers of Auschwitz No Limits Festival, Normanby Hall Country Park 
24th Ladies of Leisure North Shields Library
26th Ladies of Leisure Kiplin Hall 
October 2024
3rd Ladies of Leisure The Georgian Theatre Royal
5th Ladies of Leisure Wakefield One 
9th Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Billingham Library 
11th Mary Quant - Fashion Icon Darlington Library 
12th Ladies of Leisure Jane Austen Society Northern Branch
17th Ladies of Leisure Middlethorpe Hall 
23rd Monday is Wash Day Golden Plover Group WI
26th Visions in Blue Ripon U3A 
November 2024
7th The Gentlewoman's Wardrobe Bramall Hall
9th Visions in Blue  Leyburn 
21st Party Frocks & Birthday Cake Pendle Luncheon Club, Tempest Arms, Elslack mason.judith@yahoo.co.uk
28th Tracing Lost Lives Luvly Lasses
30th Tracing Lost Lives Cambridge Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers, Arbury Community Centre Cambridge, 2pm Enquiries
December 2024
4th What Were We Thinking?!! A 1970s Christmas West Acre Theatre, Kings Lynn Buy Tickets
6th A Wartime Christmas The Word, South Shields 6pm presentation * SOLD OUT *
8th Top of the Frocks - a 1980s Christmas Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent 1pm
14th The Frock Shop at Christmas - 1960s fashion shopping Macclesfield Library 11am macclesfield.library@cheshireeast.gov.uk * SOLD OUT *
 
18th A Wartime Christmas Whitley Bay Library 6.30pm Tickets available from North Tyneside libraries
     
  Sneak preview of 2025...  
23/Jan Mary Quant - Fashion Icon North Shields Library 6.30pm
4/Feb The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough 7.30pm Book Tickets
20/Feb Mary Quant - Fashion Icon Gateshead Central Library 6.30pm www.gatesheadlibraries.com
1/Mar The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Alnwick StoryFest, Alnwick Playhouse 
6/Mar Divine Deco - the Art of the Dressmaker Bassetlaw Museum 6.30pm Bassetlaw.Museum@bassetlaw.gov.uk
18/Mar Four Red Sweaters US publication of Lucy Adlington's new Holocaust history book Pre-order book USA
19/Mar Bumps, Babbies & Bairns Vale Royal Group WI 7.30pm
23/Mar Unravelled - The Story of Four Red Sweaters Book launch at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum
26/Mar Mary Quant - Fashion Icon DCFWI Bowburn
27/Mar Unravelled - The Story of Four Red Sweaters Poynton WI 8pm poyntonwi@gmail.com
30/Mar Unravelled - the Story of Four Red Sweaters The Word, South Tyneside 2pm presentation pauline.martin@southtyneside.gov.uk
1/Apr Four Red Sweaters UK publication of Lucy Adlington's new Holocaust history book Pre-order book UK
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