Crime, Social History and Mystery – Mystery & Imagination

Crime & Social History

Morning Course

Diane Janes

20 August 2021

Non-resident fee £33 (morning only)

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Description

This morning course is part of Dillington Discovery Summer week.

Something a little lighter to conclude the week… From the depths of Loch Ness to the summit of Mount Everest, via the Bermuda Triangle, there has always been an appetite for a good mystery. Today we will undertake a whistle stop tour of various mysteries, including unsolved murders, alleged hauntings, infamous disappearances and one or two notorious tall tales, exploring the crossover from fact to fiction and back again, considering the relationship between traditional storytelling and urban legends, and attempting to get to the bottom of our own fascination with the unsolved and the unknown. As a famous TV show once had it ‘The truth is out there’ – the question is, do we really want to find it?

Tutor information

Diane Janes is an award winning author, who has written five highly regarded crime novels and four respected factual books on real life historical murders. She is regularly invited to lecture on crime and social history to a wide variety of audiences, in locations as diverse as cruise ships and village halls, and her first work of non-fiction, Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery is now referenced in academic text books on the history of policing.

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