Events
Our upcoming talks, workshops and seminarsOur programme of live events has been suspended until further notice, but we are pleased to be able to offer you a series of talks over the internet via Zoom.
You will find details of our virtual events below.
The Arms of Devon’s Colourful Gentry | 17.06.2021
A zoom talk by Dr David Oates on Thursday 17th June 2021 at 6pm. Heraldic paintings, known as hatchments, are hung on the walls of parish churches across the country. The custom was to display a lozenge shaped artwork showing the arms of someone who had died over the...
Finding the Thread | 27.05.2021
The last hurrah of the Devon Cloth Industry. A zoom talk by Dr Todd Gray on Thursday 27th May 2021 at 6pm. Woollen cloth was Devon’s greatest export from the late medieval period through to the early 1800s. Each year many hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth were...
Plymouth in 1620 | 22.04.2021
A zoom talk by Martin Read on Thursday 22nd April 2021 at 6pm. What did Plymouth look like when the Mayflower and Speedwell put down their anchors in the Cattewater ahead of their epic voyage across the Atlantic? This illustrated talk will examine how the integration...
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