“The apparel oft proclaims the man” – or woman!
Christine Housden, Freelance Textile Conservator | A brief overview of Elizabethan fashions. This interactive session will feature the chance to feel fabrics and perhaps even try a few small pieces on for yourself.
Anglo Saxon to Modern English: Chalk & Cheese?
Professor Hugh Magennis, Speaker | From Beowulf to Bring Up the Bodies: kennings to kingship: 1500 years of English – a language for everyone.
Seamus Heaney: Archaeology of the Mind: ‘going deeper’
Liz Magennis, speaker | This session will be an exploration of Heaney’s exquisitely crafted work, ‘Digging’ more deeply into the imaginative terrain into which he takes us.
Uniformly Elegant
Christine Housden, retired Textile Conservator | Judith Mead, retired theatre & TV designer | £12 (early bird) / £15
Jane Austen: “Manners are more important than laws”: Edmund Burke
Liz Magennis | £12 (early bird) / £15
