alice's day

Today there are lots of events around Oxford commemorating the anniversary of Alice's adventures in Wonderland. This is because Lewis Carroll first told the story on July 4th 1862, and events tend to be on the following Saturday. Most of them for kids, but I went to the lectures put on by the Lewis Carroll Society, which tend to be very inspiring.



Here's Franziska Kohlt, with a video relating to her talk from last year (Alice & Victorian psychiatry), she spoke again this year on a broader "Alice through time" kind of topic:




I'm sure she will be back next year, she's quite unstoppable.


Alice and the caterpillar, shown above will, of course, feature on the cover of my new book ...