Lectures

• Pilgrims & Pilgrimage in Gloucestershire

  30/11/2018

  The speaker, John Putley, will discuss why pilgrims under took their journey, how they travelled, lived on the journey and what they hoped to achieve.

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• Issac Pitman - 3 years in Wotton

  21/12/2018

  Our Curator, David Baird, will introduce a young man, a Methodist minister, with a different idea on education that arrives in Wotton-under-Edge to take on the role of Master of the new British School, in three short years he would astound the world!

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• Healing Springs, Holy Wells and Spas

  25/01/2019

  The speaker, Alan Pilbeam, will discuss the distribution of springs and wells in Gloucestershire and their significance.

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• America's first Thanksgiving (1619)

  22/02/2019

  Prof Mark Horton, the Society's President, has been hunting for the site of America's first Thanksgiving (1619)

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• 'Berkeley Hundred in Virginia '1619-1622

  22/03/2019

  Philip Ashford taught at KLB for 38 years and is a well-known Somerset social and economic historian. Researching maritime history he found that two vessels left in 1619 and 1620 for Virginia. Aboard were people from around Wotton and North Nibley.

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• Tynesfield - Progress & Discoveries

  3/05/2019

  Jennie and Terry Stevens have been volunteers at Tyntesfield since September 2002 and have been involved in the developments over the past sixteen years.

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