Crab and Bee's Matter of Britain

Crab & Bee (Phil Smith & Helen Billinghurst) have been gathering the ‘old stories’ of Albion, using the map of their own instincts, travelling on foot, and always ‘being there’. The result is an anarchic retelling of the old folk tales, a banishing spell for nostalgia. These are not the stories of the medieval manuscripts, or their nationalist retellings for the BBC or the readership of the Times. This is how the old stories tell themselves these days, in their own places, the places where their genii loci dwell. Professor Ronald Hutton called the resulting book "an inspired retelling of some of the finest tales and tale tropes of England, at once very old and very modern".

Join Helen and Phil, and publisher Dan Sumption, for readings from the book, a discussion of how it came about, and an exhibition of original artworks featured in the book.

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