With the Bayeux Tapestry on display at the British Museum until July 2027, making its first return to Britain in nearly a thousand years, 1066 is once again firmly in the public imagination. But what did the Norman Conquest feel like for those who lived through it? At...
Few political figures are as recognisable or influential as Nelson Mandela. In this talk, Professor Christopher Prior explores how Mandela came to embody one of the defining political and humanitarian causes of the twentieth century. Beyond the familiar story lies a...
Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, most European nations feared witchcraft and put people to death for allegedly practising it, on a scale not seen before and never repeated since. Why did these persecutions occur? Why did they come to an end? And could...
THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED, DUE TO DEMAND THE TALK WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT SALISBURY MUSEUM This event has sold out, email info@arundells.org to be added to a waiting list The Knights Templar are among the most famous and misunderstood figures of the medieval...
