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War Horse puppets to be auctioned for charity

Puppets from the successful stage play War Horse are to be sold for charity.   The puppets are being sold in aid of the Handspring Trust, a charity for puppet theatre arts. To read the story in full, click here [Photo credit: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg]… Read More

Frank Cottrell Boyce: what’s the point of culture in Brexit Britain?

In a recent article in The Guardian, Frank Cottrell Boyce has considered the cultural legacy of Britain post-referendum. One of his key points included an evaluation of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo, as shown below …increasingly the arts are having to justify their own existence. And increasingly they do so… Read More

War Horse – featured on Blue Peter!

In celebration of the opening of Seven Stories’ Michael Morpurgo exhibit, A Lifetime in Stories, the BBC’s Blue Peter took a look at some of the pieces from the exhibit. Watch the episode on iPlayer now, and from 18:15 you could see the first ever handwritten draft of War Horse! Simply… Read More

Michael Morpurgo brings storytelling to life for Cumbrian pupils

Michael Morpurgo visited lucky pupils at Casterton Sedbergh Prep School to talk about his writing and also to thank the children for the money they have raised for his charity, Farms for City Children. Michael and his wife Clare founded Farms for City Children in 1976 at Nethercott Farm, deep… Read More

Michael Morpurgo: The Somme should be a lesson to us all

Michael Morpurgo has written many, many books. But for this former Children’s Laureate, it is the ones he has written about war, most notably of course War Horse, and Private Peaceful, with which his name is most synonymous. And so he accompanied ITV News as they visited the cemeteries that stretch… Read More

Michael Morpurgo: why we should remember the first world war

Speaking to The Guardian Children’s book site back in 2014, Michael Morpurgo explores how the first world war still looms large in our imagination. He also describes what it’s like to watch War Horse performed in a theatre once frequented by Hitler, how he’s not a hero,… Read More

Reflect on the life of Private Peaceful in the classroom

Join Michael Morpurgo on the 24th of June to teach your class about life in WW1 before the centenary of the Battle of the Somme on July 1st Michael Morpurgo, in partnership with HarperCollins Children’s Books, is hosting a real-time digital event on the 24th of June to encourage children… Read More

Michael Morpurgo gives support to Ypres 2016 Poppy Cenotaph Appeal

Acclaimed author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo has given his support to a striking new World War 1 Cenotaph to be created by blacksmiths and farriers in Flanders, Belgium.The contribution and suffering of horses and those who cared for them were brought to popular culture in Morpurgo’s bestselling novel… Read More

National Theatre announces UK tour of War Horse

The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse, begins a major tour of the UK on 15 September 2017 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, where it will run until 14 October 2017. War Horse will then tour to the Bristol Hippodrome (18 October – 11 November 2017),… Read More