Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society: Programme of Events
Thursday 9th January, 7.00pm: Pitts Room, Fearon Hall – Mollie Smith on Queen Henrietta Maria.
An emblematic example of Early Modern Femininity? An exploration of Henrietta Maria’s formative years and how they shaped her queenship.
Thursday, April 3rd, 7:00pm in Fearon Hall. The Annual General Meeting of the Loughborough Archaeological & Historical Society.
Following the events of the AGM Professor Martyn Bennett will deliver a talk entitled ‘James I and VI and His Daemons’.
Tuesday 22nd April, 7.00pm, All Saints Parish Church: – Special Event: The Ian Keil Memorial Lecture – Professor Ronald Hutton on ‘Pagan Goddesses Christian Europe’.
Professional historians are agreed that ancient paganism itself did not long survive the official conversion of Western Europe to Christianity. They are divided over how far it is possible to suggest that features of the old religions survived within Christian culture. This talk makes a fresh contribution to the debate, by looking at superhuman figures in medieval and early modern Christian Europe who do not seem to be survivals from ancient paganism but have nothing Christian about them either. It suggests that we need a new language to discuss Europe in these periods.’
Thursday 5th of June, 7.00pm: Pitts Room, Fearon Hall – Jean Townsend on ‘London’s Lost Jewels: The story of the Cheapside Hoard.
Jean Townsend is a social historian (semi-retired) adult education tutor and free- lance lecturer. She specialises in the late medieval early Tudor period. She is also an amateur archaeologist and was one of the volunteer lecturers for the Mary Rose Trust in the 1980’s.
