Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society
Museum & Heritage Centre
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.
As sure as God’s in Gloucestershire: Pilgrimage was big business in medieval times - but why did people travel many miles to visit a shrine, often at the risk of dying on the way? What did they hope to achieve by making a pilgrimage? How did they get there? What arrangements did they make? This entertaining presentation investigates all aspects of medieval pilgrimage – from cancelling the milk and booking the tickets through to eating the food and buying souvenirs. It also looks at a few of the fabled pilgrim destinations of Gloucestershire
Wotton-under-Edge Civic Centre
2 Gloucester Street, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7DN
Friday 30th November 2018 at 7.30pm
Visitors welcome.
Non-members £5 on the door
Upcoming Lectures
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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
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America's first Thanksgiving (1619)
22/02/2019