Public Lecture Programme

These popular events feature in the programme from the Autumn to the Spring.  Tickets for some of these lectures sell extremely quickly so do not delay in getting yours!

2008
Date
Michael Wood on India
Sunday, October 12, 2008  FULL
Brian Sewell on ‘Renaissance Faces’
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Brian Sewell on ‘Renaissance Faces’
Sunday, November 02, 2008  FULL
The Verneys: True Stories of Love, War and Madness in 17th-Century England with Adrian Tinniswood
Sunday, November 16, 2008
The Atomic Bomb and The Origins of the Cold War
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Einstein’s Universe with Brian Foster OBE FRS and Jack Liebeck
Sunday, February 08, 2009
What Gardens Mean with Professor Christopher Tilley, University College London
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The Politics of James Bond with Professor Jeremy Black, Exeter University
Sunday, March 08, 2009
The English Civil War with Professor Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sinner or Saint – The World’s Greatest Architect with Gijs van Hensbergen
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Richard Holmes on Rebels and Redcoats
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Tickets Enquiry – daborer@somerset.gov.uk

Previous lectures have included:
 
Professor Richard Holmes on 'The First Duke of Marlborough'
 
Jonathan Meades on 'Architecture - the Answer to All Our Woes!'
 
Claire Fox on 'Standing Up for Free Speech'
 
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
 
Roy Hattersley on 'Borrowed Time'
 
The Monuments and Landscape of Stonehenge
 
Claire Tomalin on 'Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man'
 
Defence od the Realm: Uk Intelligence and the Jihadist Terorist Threat
 
Brian Sewell on 'Renaissance Siena: Art for a City'
 
Brian Sewell on 'Renaissance Siena: Art for a City
 
Agincourt: Exploding the Myth
 
Demystifying Nuclear Energy
 
Wireless Wars with Professor Sean Street, University of Bournemouth
 
Professor Richard Holmes on 'Dusty Warriors'
 
'Superstrings' with Professor Brian Foster & Jack Liebeck
 
The Battle for Real Food
 
Michael Mansfield QC: 'A Law unto Himself'
 
Professor Richard Dawkins on 'The God Delusion'
 
Brian Sewell on Velázquez
 
Richard Holmes on 'Sahib, the British Soldier in the Indian Army'
 

 

 

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