The university city of Oxford is holding a special Alice Day and Caucus Race this summer to mark the 150th anniversary of the first telling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Oxford is where the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, first outlined his story to the 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on 4 July 1862. It was published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, followed in 1871 by the sequel Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There. The books have been translated into 125 languages.The organisers promise that on Alice Day, 7 July, there will be curiouser and curiouser happenings including a Mad Hatter’s tea party, the Queen of Hearts’ Unbirthday Party, exhibitions, storytelling, promenade theatre and Alice-themed walks and talks. The following day, the Caucus Race will take place in Merton Field, Christ Church, which is the college where Lewis Carroll was a maths tutor and where the original Alice also lived.
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