Charleston Festival
10 days of thrilling events at the home of the Bloomsbury Group
Set in the gentle curves of the East Sussex countryside, Charleston’s pretty much unchanged since the days when it was home to the literary, philosophical and artistic big-hitters of the Bloomsbury Group in the early 1900s.
A century on, attending the Charleston Festival’s many events and talks, sitting and discussing the issues of the day and having a picnic among the trees, you can just feel their legacy.
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