Lectures & Speakers 2020 – 2021 (Provisional)
Our lecture season would normally run from October to April, with lectures being held in the Anna McDowell Garden Room at Gold Hill Museum on the first Tuesday afternoon of each month. The exception is the Teulon Porter Memorial Lecture, which starts the season and is held in the evening at Shaftesbury Town Hall. Noel Teulon Porter was a notable Cambridge archaeologist and instrumental in founding The Shaftesbury & District Historical Society in 1946.
The 2020-21 programme was organised prior to the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Lectures listed below may therefore be subject to alteration or cancellation. Any changes will be advised through this page and our News Blog.
The 2020 Teulon Porter Lecture is cancelled. It will now be delivered on Tuesday 05 October 2021 by Professor Anthony Badger, formerly Paul Mellon Professor of American History, Master of Clare College and Chair of Cambridge Assessment at the University of Cambridge; Professor of American History at the University of Northumbria; and Past President of The Historical Association. (Further details at the foot of this page.)
Lectures are free to members, while visitors may pay £3 at the door (£5 for the Teulon Porter). To reserve a seat, non-members are advised to contact enquiries@goldhillmuseum.org.uk
Proposals for lectures to the Society on suitable historical subjects are welcome, and may also be made via enquiries@goldhillmuseum.org.uk
| Date / Time | Topic | Speaker | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 02 November 2021 – 2.30pm – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum
Please note that this talk has been postponed until the 2021-22 season | Posted in the Past | Helen Baggott | Helen Baggott is a Dorset-based freelance editor and writer. She has researched the people and the stories behind messages on vintage postcards, and published a fascinating collection under the same title |
| Tuesday, 01 December 2020 – 2.30pm – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum | London and Dorset; A Shared History in Construction | Sir John Stuttard | Sir John is a former Lord Mayor of London, current President of The S&DHS, and author of a recent book on John Rutter. He draws on his knowledge of the City to point up some little known architectural parallels. He will focus on the Isle of Purbeck, Swanage, and the links in marble and stone construction between Dorset and London |
| Tuesday, 05 January 2021 – 2.30p.m. – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum | Sir Merton Russell-Cotes and the Development of Bournemouth | David Beardsley | David Beardsley is a guide and outreach officer at the Russell-Cotes Museum. He shows how Merton Russell-Cotes helped drive the growth of Bournemouth as a tourist destination, and a century ago donated a magnificent, quirky house and art collection to its residents |
| Tuesday, 02 February 2021 – 2.30p.m. – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum
This lecture was postponed from February 2020 | Thomas Hardy: the Novels, the Novelist and North Dorset | Alban O’Brien | Alban volunteers at Hardy’s Cottage and with the New Hardy Players. He was going to share his enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, Hardy last season, and we are hoping that events will not again conspire to prevent him from doing so |
| Tuesday, 02 March 2021 – 2.30p.m. – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum | Reconstructing the Theatres of Shakespeare’s Time – the Globe and the Wanamaker Playhouse | Paul Simons | Paul Simons is a conservation architect and a Tourism, World Heritage and thermal spa specialist and consultant. He was intimately involved in the design and construction of the Tudor and Jacobean theatres rebuilt on the South Bank of the Thames |
| At a date and time to be arranged – The Garden Room, Gold Hill Museum
This presentation was postponed from April 2020 | Tea and Talks: Photographs of Edwardian Shaftesbury | S&DHS members Claire Ryley and Ann Symons | Following their phenomenally popular Shaftesbury Remembers sessions at Shaftesbury Library, Claire and Ann will be asking for the audience’s help in identifying scenes from the Tyler Photographic Collection. |
