History Society – Arnold Bennett

Tomorrow (Thursday May 18th) evening at 7.30pm in the Scout and Guide hall, Cheshire St, the History Society will hear a talk on 'Arnold Bennett and the five towns' by Professor Ray Johnson MBE. Ray is a well known actor, broadcaster and director of the Staffordshire film archive.

He is Emeritus Professor of Film Heritage and documentary at Staffordshire University and has championed the life and work of Arnold Bennett.

2017 is the 150th anniversary of Bennett's birth. During the Edwardian period he became famous for his novels, but was also a successful playwright, journalist and critic. After the success of Anna of the Five Towns in 1902 he went to live in Paris for a decade and continued to write his Five Towns novels until WWI.

Ray is performing as Arnold at the Stoke on Trent Literary festival in June.

Visitors are welcome to the meeting, £3 each but students and school children are free, light refreshments served afterwards.

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