Jan 9, 2025 | Event
Plants, Poultices and Persecution | 7pm Join local author and historian Tracey Norman as she explores some fascinating 17th century remedies. Discover how our ancestors managed a range of ailments, from bruises to toothache. What did snails and earthworms have to do...
Jan 9, 2025 | Event
Occult Torquay: An Unremembered Heritage | 7pm From its very beginnings, Torquay folk had an interest in exploring occult ideas outside of mainstream religion and philosophy. Join Kevin Dixon for a light-hearted talk covering local pixies, druids, witchcraft, cunning...
Jan 9, 2025 | Event
Tour of the Tors by Nigel Grist| 7pm In this lecture, Nigel Grist will present a virtual tour around many of Dartmoor’s tors, looking at the geology, history, archaeology, folklore and flora and fauna. Nigel is a biologist by training with an early period...
Jan 9, 2025 | Event
Voices from the past: my own story of the making and preserving of recorded oral histories | 7pm Stephen Pedrick is a local historian specialising in oral history. Born in Kingsbridge, his family go back almost exclusively in the South Hams for many generations. He...
Jan 9, 2025 | Event
Lost to the Sea by Lisa Woolett | 7pm In this lecture, Lisa will talk about her latest book Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland. Inspired by growing up on the island’s eroding cliffs, she goes in search of traces of lands lost to...
Jan 9, 2025 | Event
The Georgian Improvers of Dartmoor by Simon Dell. 7pm In this lecture, well-known local author and Dartmoor Guide Simon Dell will tell us about ambitious attempts 200 years ago to turn the moorlands of Dartmoor into productive agricultural land. The...
