Whatever Happened to Christopher Robin?

A talk by Gilly Halcrow

 for the Tennant Lecture Series

Thursday 26 September 2024

Lecture either in the E M Forster or Big School at 8pm (to be confirmed)

Drinks in the Theatre Foyer or Lowry Dining Room from 7.15pm (to be confirmed)

 It is now exactly 100 years since A A Milne published 'When We Were Very Young' and this was followed by 'Winnie The Pooh', 'Now We Are Six' and then 'The House at Pooh Corner'.  On his first birthday, Christopher Robin was given a teddy bear from Harrods, originally called Edward, which was to become Winnie The Pooh.  A year later Piglet arrived, followed by Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger. The books about these toys were spectacularly successful, but whatever happened to Christopher Robin, as he grew up, first in London and then in Hartfield on the Ashdown Forest?  Was he a happy child, or did that English teddy bear overshadow his life? Gilly Halcrow, an outstanding lecturer who grew up in Hartfield, will tell us about the life of Christopher Robin from the 1920s and, of course, Winnie The Pooh.

This event is fully accessible.