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NEXT BISLEY HISTORY GROUP TALK
- THURSDAY JANUARY 22
COPSEGROVE BURNS NIGHT FEAST
- SATURDAY JANUARY 24
FIRST BIG BREAKFAST OF 2026
-SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7
VALENTINE'S DAY AT COPSEGROVE FARM
- SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14
BEAR INN PUB QUIZ
- SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15
Proceeds from the February Bear pub quiz will go to the church roof repair fund.
THE REVOLVERS LIVE
- SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 2026
The first Bisley Community Group fundraising event of 2026 (other than the pub quizzes) will be a live show by the excellent ska band The Revolvers - members of which were last seen in the village performing outside the Stirrup at the wonderful post-lockdown freedom gig back in 2022.
Think Madness meets The Specials meets Bad Manners meets Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker, alongside a disco featuring music from the 1960s to the present day.
Tickets are £5 and available now via TicketSource.
All proceeds will go to help fund this year's Bisley Music Festival and Big Bisley Bonfire Night Bash.
Think Madness meets The Specials meets Bad Manners meets Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker, alongside a disco featuring music from the 1960s to the present day.
Tickets are £5 and available now via TicketSource.
All proceeds will go to help fund this year's Bisley Music Festival and Big Bisley Bonfire Night Bash.
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2025
JILLY COOPER RIP
Jilly was a lovely woman, well-liked in the village, and often to be seen pottering around with one of her greyhounds.
She will be greatly missed.
Here are a few links about her - the first featuring Eddie Kearney speaking to The Times. This must have been an interesting experience for both parties.
The Times: My trip through Jilly Cooper’s Cotswolds, land of a thousand romps
The Times, again: Jilly Cooper’s 1969 debut column: ‘We lived in screaming chaos’
Times obituary: Dame Jilly Cooper obituary: Sunday Times columnist and prolific author
The Daily Mail: Huge bidding war looms for diaries of bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper ‘that are even racier than Rivals’
The Daily Mail, again: Jilly Cooper was one of the kindest women I've ever known - the world is a far less fabulous place without her
The Daily Telegraph: The Jilly Cooper I knew for 20 years deserved damehood decades ago
Daily Telegraph obituary: Dame Jilly Cooper, sharp-eyed social observer and author of Riders dubbed ‘Queen of the Bonkbusters’
Guardian obituary: Author whose bestselling novels, including Riders and Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where the natives pursued land, sports, and each other, with lust and gusto
Observer obituary: Jilly Cooper, saucy novelist who just wanted to make people smile
Bookseller obituary: Jilly Cooper dies aged 88
New York Times obituary: Jilly Cooper, Widely Popular Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88
Le Monde obituary: Jilly Cooper, known for her novels filled with sex, snobbery and fun, dies at 88
Berliner TagesZeitung obituary: UK queen pays tribute to author Jilly Cooper, dead at 88
Cotswold Journal: Cotswolds village of Bisley which Dame Jilly Cooper called home
She will be greatly missed.
Here are a few links about her - the first featuring Eddie Kearney speaking to The Times. This must have been an interesting experience for both parties.
The Times: My trip through Jilly Cooper’s Cotswolds, land of a thousand romps
The Times, again: Jilly Cooper’s 1969 debut column: ‘We lived in screaming chaos’
Times obituary: Dame Jilly Cooper obituary: Sunday Times columnist and prolific author
The Daily Mail: Huge bidding war looms for diaries of bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper ‘that are even racier than Rivals’
The Daily Mail, again: Jilly Cooper was one of the kindest women I've ever known - the world is a far less fabulous place without her
The Daily Telegraph: The Jilly Cooper I knew for 20 years deserved damehood decades ago
Daily Telegraph obituary: Dame Jilly Cooper, sharp-eyed social observer and author of Riders dubbed ‘Queen of the Bonkbusters’
Guardian obituary: Author whose bestselling novels, including Riders and Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where the natives pursued land, sports, and each other, with lust and gusto
Observer obituary: Jilly Cooper, saucy novelist who just wanted to make people smile
Bookseller obituary: Jilly Cooper dies aged 88
New York Times obituary: Jilly Cooper, Widely Popular Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88
Le Monde obituary: Jilly Cooper, known for her novels filled with sex, snobbery and fun, dies at 88
Berliner TagesZeitung obituary: UK queen pays tribute to author Jilly Cooper, dead at 88
Cotswold Journal: Cotswolds village of Bisley which Dame Jilly Cooper called home
