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Forthcoming online events
Forthcoming online events
Lecture: The Red Lion - the 500 year story of a St Albans inn
March 9, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Jon Mein. In the High Street location now occupied by Zizzi’s restaurant, the Red Lion was one of the principal inns catering for pilgrims to the Abbey and motorists in its final years. In charting the history of the Red Lion from medieval inn to turnpike ‘service station’ to 20th century hotel, this talk questions our understanding of the development of St Albans.
External lecture: St Albans at the Reformation: the Survival and Revival of the Abbey Church and its Community
March 11, 2021
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Presentation by St Albans Cathedral. In 2020, the UK witnessed the full closure of places of worship for the first time in centuries. This talk recalls another moment in history when congregations were shut out of their churches at the Dissolution, and explores how here in St Albans the churchmen and congregation came to recover their abbey church. Cost: £10 (students £6)
External lecture: Henry III, Matthew Paris, and St Albans Abbey
March 13, 2021
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Presentation by St. Albans Cathedral. Speaker: Prof David Carpenter. Prof Carpenter explores Henry III’s close relationship with St Albans chronicler Matthew Paris and what we can learn of the character and outlook of both men. He will also describe Henry’s relations with the medieval Abbey of St Albans, showing the importance of Henry’s devotion to St Alban. Cost: £10 (students £6)
Public Lecture: Beacons of the Past - investigating a prehistoric Chilterns' landscape
March 16, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Dr Wendy Morrison. Wendy manages a project to engage and inspire communities to discover, conserve, and enjoy the Chilterns' Iron Age hillforts and their prehistoric chalk landscapes. Wendy will present some of the results of the UK’s largest bespoke archaeological LiDAR survey, the projects outreach programmes and what shape the final 12 months will take.
Seminar: Burial practices as requested in 17th and 18th centuries St Albans wills
March 18, 2021
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Zoom
Convenor: Kate Moss. Moderators: Kate Moss & Pat Howe. Requests made in people's wills often reflected their social status and religious beliefs. The 17th century saw a steep rise in the middle classes and also an increase in independent thought on religious matters which can often be detected from wills. This seminar will draw on the work of Pat Howe and the 17th century group and Kate Morris’s research on the 18th century.
Lecture: The 'Spanish' Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world
April 6, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Laura Spinney. Laura will recount the story of an overlooked pandemic and demonstrate that the Spanish Flu was as significant - if not more so - as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts.
Lecture: The Prittlewell Prince - an Anglo-Saxon burial chamber in its local and wider context
April 13, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Lyn Blackmore. Discovered in 2003, the richly furnished princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend, is the earliest post-Roman Christian burial in England and the most important Anglo-Saxon burial found since the discovery of Sutton Hoo in 1939. Lyn outlines the story of the cemetery, from its inception in the 6th century AD and considers the resources used to construct and furnish the chamber and the possible symbolism of the carefully selected objects placed in it.
Lecture: The Future of History: the next 176 years
April 20, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speakers: Prof. Margot Finn, Prof. Sarah Lloyd, and Rebecca Sullivan. And now for something completely different! Instead of a lecture: a discussion; whereby a panel of eminent historians will each share their personal perspective of the history of the past, present and future. There will then follow a chance for debate and audience participation.
Lecture: Coffee - A global history
May 4, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Morris. Prof. Morris’s book, Coffee: A Global History, upon which his presentation will be based, explains how the world acquired a taste for coffee, and why coffee tastes are so different throughout the world. He will trace the bean’s journey from the forests of Ethiopia through the coffee houses of Europe, the plantations of Brazil, the introduction of instant coffee, and the global coffee shop culture of today.
Lecture: Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Hertfordshire's Antarctic Explorer
May 11, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Chris Bennett. Chris takes a look at the writings of Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Lamer, Wheathampstead, who accompanied Captain Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, 1910 - 1913.
Lecture: Regeneration in East London - Toynbee Hall, the London Dock and the Royal London Hospital
May 18, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Richard Griffiths. Richard will talk about some of his recent projects namely Toynbee Hall; the London Dock; and the conversion of the Royal London Hospital into the Tower Hamlets Town Hall. He will expound his belief that adding a new layer of architecture and use to old buildings is as interesting and rewarding as designing a new building.
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