Our Events 2025
The Green Dragon Hotel is proud to be the event’s leading hospitality partner.
We’ve created a special two-course menu that you can pre-order and enjoy before or after you see many of the incredible events. By pre-ordering, you can guarantee there’s no waiting around to dine and no time wasted, just a relaxed, enjoyable meal in the heart of Hereford City. Full details and booking here!
Jesse Norman and guests discuss global politics
26 September 2025
1:00pm
Venue: allpay stage at Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Paul Beaver, Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire
26 September 2025
1:30pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Craig Smith: Resilience, Leadership and Adaptability
26 September 2025
1:30pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
David Ross: Herefordshire in the English Civil War
26 September 2025
1:30pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Peter Apps: Deterring Armageddon
26 September 2025
3:00pm
Sponsored by: GRC
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Lucy Easthope: Disaster Planning and Coping with Crisis
26 September 2025
3:30pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Ian Rivers: Endurance and Resilience
26 September 2025
3:30pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
Patrick Baty: Artists Rifles
26 September 2025
5:30pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Philippe Sands: The Secrets of 38 Londres Street
26 September 2025
6:00pm
Sponsored by: Charles and Sarah de Rohan
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Ben Macintyre: The Seige
26 September 2025
7:45pm
Sponsored by: The Green Dragon Hotel
Venue: allpay stage at Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Facing Coming Storms: History's Lessons for Current Conflicts
27 September 2025
11:00am
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Conn Iggulden: Tyrant
27 September 2025
11:00am
Venue: Green Dragon Hotel
Duration: 60 minutes
Bob Seely and Charles Hecker: Russia
27 September 2025
11:00am
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Larry Lamb: Poems of War and Life
27 September 2025
12:30pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Charles Pither: Wartime Forgery and SOE
27 September 2025
12:30pm
Venue: Green Dragon Hotel
Duration: 60 minutes
Anna Reid & Jen Stout: Ukraine, The human impact
27 September 2025
12:30pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Tony Rushmer: SAS Duty Before Glory
27 September 2025
12:30pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
Antony Beevor & Arthur Denaro: The Changing Face of Warfare
27 September 2025
1:00pm
Sponsored by: Antony Hichens
Venue: allpay stage at Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Victoria Taylor: Eagle Days
27 September 2025
2:00pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Tim Willasy-Wilsey: Espionage and Intrigue - The Spy and the Devil
27 September 2025
2:00pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Nicholas Soames: Churchill, the Great Human Being
27 September 2025
2:30pm
Sponsored by: allpay
Venue: allpay stage at Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Hilary Meredith Beckham: Military Law
27 September 2025
3:30pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Bill Jackson & Katherine Andrew book launch: A 1000 years of High Sheriffs in Hereford
27 September 2025
3:30pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
Clare Mulley: Agent Zo
27 September 2025
3:45pm
Venue: Green Dragon Hotel
Duration: 60 minutes
Angharad Hampshire: The Mare
27 September 2025
4:00pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Paul Vicary & Ash Winter: Overcoming Adversity
27 September 2025
5:00pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War
27 September 2025
5:00pm
Sponsored by: Edward and Tamsin Clive
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Why Military History Will Make Your Travel Better
27 September 2025
5:30pm
Venue: College Hall, Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 60 minutes
Tim Bouverie and Nicholas Soames - Critical Decisions: Allies at War
27 September 2025
6:30pm
Sponsored by: allpay
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Festival Guests and their Memorable Historical Moments
27 September 2025
7:00pm
Venue: allpay stage at Hereford Cathedral
Duration: 75 minutes with interval
Tessa Dunlop: Lest We Forget
28 September 2025
11:00am
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Damien Lewis: SAS Great Escapes Four
28 September 2025
12:30pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Tessa Dunlop: Lest We Forget / War and Peace in 100 British Monuments.
28 September 2025
2:00pm
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: 60 minutes
Daniel Finkelstein: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
28 September 2025
2:00pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Spectra Veterans Series - Veterans Walk with Ash Winter
28 September 2025
3:30pm
FREE EVENT
Venue: Meet at Castle Green Pavilion
Duration: Approx 1hr 45mins
Alistair Wood: My family and other Spies (with afternoon tea)
28 September 2025
3:30pm
Venue: Green Dragon Restaurant
Duration: Afternoon Tea
Anne Sebba and Wendy Holden: Remarkable People of Auschwitz
28 September 2025
3:30pm
Sponsored by: Robin and Sarah Thorne
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Matthew Skellhorn and Harriet Rushton: Naval Wrecks
28 September 2025
5:00pm
Venue: Hereford Town Hall
Duration: 60 minutes
Dinner with Kate Adie
28 September 2025
6:30pm
Sponsored by: Arthur and Maggie Denaro
Venue: Green Dragon Restaurant
Duration: Evening