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| Thursday 5 September | 3.00pm Welcome Centre | Dartington Accommodation check-in opens |
| 3.00-6.00pm East Wing Lounge | Early Arrivers Registration | |
| 3.00-6.00pm Holand Room | Conference Bookstall run by Dartington Trust Books | |
| 5.00-6.00pm Meet at The Arch, Great Hall Courtyard | Rosemary Griggs Dartington Gardens Tour | |
| Friday 6 September | 9.00am Meet the coach at Dartington Arch or Premier Inn | Excursion to Agatha Christie’s Greenway (9.00am-2.00pm) |
| 10.00am Meet the coach at Dartington Arch | Excursion to Powderham Castle (10.00am-5.30pm) | |
| 10.00am Meet the coach at Dartington Arch | Excursion to Exeter Cathedral (10.00am-5.00pm) | |
| 2.00-3.00pm Meet at the Dartington Arch | Rosemary Griggs Dartington Gardens Tour | |
| 3.00pm Welcome Centre | Dartington Accommodation check-in opens | |
| 3.00-6.00pm East Wing Lounge | Conference Registration | |
| 3.00-6.00pm Holand Room | Conference Bookstall | |
| 4.00-6.00pm East Wing Lounge | Agents and Publishers’ One2Ones | |
| 4.00-5.00pm Meet at Dartington Arch | Rosemary Griggs Dartington Gardens Tour | |
| 6.00-7.30pm Great Hall/White Hart | Welcome Reception and Quiz with Adam Honeyman | |
| Saturday 7 September | 9.45-10.00am Great Hall | Richard Lee and Conference Team Welcome |
| Throughout the conference | Rock, Paper, Swords! Roving Podcast Matthew Harffy and Steven A. McKay | |
| 9.45am-3.45pm Great Hall | Michael Cooke and MJ Porter Maps, Maps, Maps Display | |
| 10.00-10.45am Great Hall | Bernard Cornwell Opening Keynote | |
| 10.45-11.30am Great Hall | Writing Medieval Panel Derek Birks and Sharon Bennett Connolly in conversation with Elizabeth Chadwick, David Gilman, and Matthew Harffy | |
| 11.30-12.00pm The White Hart/Star Tent | Coffee and Tea Break | |
| 11.30am-6.00pm Holand Room | Conference Bookstall and Book Signings | |
| 12.00-12.45pm Great Hall | Ian Mortimer Free History: How to Ride the Waves of Time | |
| 12.45-2.00pm White Hart/Star Tent | Lunch Break | |
| 1.00-2.00pm Ship Studio | Agents and Publishers One2Ones | |
| 2.00-2.45pm Great Hall | Kate Quinn In conversation with Katherine Mezzacappa | |
| 2.45pm-3.45pm | PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Great Hall | Anna Neima Dartington’s Modernist History | |
| Studio 1, Lower Close | A.D. Rhine Co-Writing Historical Fiction | |
| Studio 3, Lower Close | Michael Jecks Writing Historical Fiction in Devon | |
| Ship Studio | Agents and Publishers One2Ones | |
| 3.45-4.15pm White Hart/Star Tent | Coffee and Tea Break | |
| 4.15-5.15pm | PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Ship Studio | Hazel Gaynor, Gill Paul, and Heather Webb Screen Queens Panel | |
| Studio 1 | Jules Larimore, Michele Callard, and Keira Morgan The Allure of French Historical Dramas on Screen and in Novels Panel | |
| Studio 3 | Deborah Swift Sparkling Settings and Convincing Costumes | |
| 6.30-11.00pm Great Hall and Lower Solar | Gala Dinner After dinner: Ian Mortimer, The Sea Gals, First Chapters Competition Awards | |
| Sunday 8 September | Throughout the conference | Rock, Paper, Swords! Roving Podcast Matthew Harffy and Steven A. McKay |
| 9.45am-4.00pm Great Hall | Michael Cooke and MJ Porter Maps, Maps, Maps Display | |
| 9.45-10.30am Great Hall | Diana Gabaldon and Chris Humphreys Adaptation: Should a Novelist Even Attempt to Adapt Their Work Into Another Medium … or Leave it to the Pros? | |
| 10.30-11.15am | PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Great Hall | Alison Morton, Ruth Downie, Kate Quinn Taking the Romans Public Panel | |
| Studio 1 | Katherine Mezzacappa Dickens on Screen | |
| Studio 3 | Heather Webb, Finola Austin, and Kris Waldherr Authors as Adaptors Panel | |
| Ship Studio | Agents and Publishers One2Ones | |
| 11.15-11.45am White Hart/Star Tent | Coffee and Tea Break | |
| 11.15am-5.00pm Holand Room | Conference Bookstall and Book Signings | |
| 11.45am-12.30pm Great Hall | Jane Johnson Real Life to the Page: Breathing Life Into History | |
| 12.30-1.15pm | PARALLEL SESSIONS | |
| Great Hall | Helen Steadman and Christine Mackie Resurrecting Seventeenth-Century Women Accused of Witchcraft (audio books) | |
| Studio 1 | Alex Weston Voices from the Past: How to Write Dialogue in Historical Fiction | |
| Studio 3 | Elizabeth Fremantle In conversation with Katherine Mezzacappa | |
| Ship Studio | Gillian Bagwell All the World’s a Stage | |
| 1.15-2.30pm The White Hart/Star Tent | Lunch Break | |
| 1.15-2.30pm Ship Studio | Agent and Publisher One2Ones | |
| 2.30-3.15pm Great Hall | S.G. Maclean In conversation with Lisa Highton | |
| 3.15-3.30pm Great Hall | Closing Richard Lee and the Conference Team |
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference 