STROUD BRANCH WEA
Civil War Day School
Gloucester Folk Museum - Saturday 19th May 2012
10.30 - Assemble and Registration - £15
10.45 to 11.30 - Speaker 1. Alan Turton
The Social Daily Life of The Seventeeth Century Soldier
Alan is a military historian, who specialises in the English Civil War and the period up to the mid-18th century. From 1987-2011 he was the curator of the English Civil War site of Basing House, Hampshire. Basing House is the ruin of a largely Tudor House which underwent the longest siege of the English Civil War, and was once the largest private house in Tudor England and comparable to Hampton Court Palace.
11.45 to 12.30 - Speaker 2. Roger Emmerson
Dorset in the English Civil War 1642-1646
1 Hour lunch break. Food at extra cost is available from Folk Museum Café.
1.30 to 2.15 - Speaker 3. Pat Poppy
Dressing the part – 300 years of women's clothing
A talk about the clothing worn by women, illustrated by dressing as a woman of about 1750, and discussing the clothes and how they changed over the period from about 1600 to 1900. There will be both reproductions and some Victorian originals to handle.
2.30 to 3.00 - Speaker 4. Roger Emmerson
Artillery at the Siege of Gloucester
With actual cannon balls from the museum collection on display to handle.
3.15 – 4.00 - Session 5.
Siege of Gloucester artifacts from the Museum collection and arms and armour from the Stow on the Wold Collection.
With the actual mens shoe from Southgate Street.
Cost: £15 per person payable on the day. Food extra.
Further details
email: Chris King - c.c.p.k@btinternet.com|