Enjoy a Trollopian Christmas

This Christmas, enjoy our Trollope and Millais card offer and join us for a BIG READ of Christmas at Thompson Hall, our Christmas Quiz, and more.

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Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected novelists of the Victorian era.

His perceptive novels remain relevant today, and his reputation continues to grow with each passing year.

Explore Trollope's life, his writings and travels with our Timeline.

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The Trollope Society has a world-wide membership and exists to promote Anthony Trollope's works, provide a forum for exploring his life, and encourage the enjoyment of his writing for future generations.

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The BIG READ 2026 ~ Full Schedule Announced

Since the BIG READ began in 2020, we’ve welcomed more than 14,000 attendances, and we’re hugely grateful to everyone who has taken part in this wonderful programme. The Trollope Society’s BIG...

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People are so much more worldly in practice than they are in theory, so much keener after their own gratification in detail than they are in the abstract.

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Events calendar

We have restarted our in-person events, we also have an extensive programme of Zoom events planned, so you can still join us online and meet other Trollope enthusiasts from all over the world.

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But no lesson is truer than that which teaches us to believe that God does temper the wind to the shorn lamb. To how many has it not seemed, at some one period of their lives, that all was over for them ... And yet they have lived to laugh again, to feel that the air was warm and the earth fair, and that God in giving them ever-springing hope has given everything.

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