Saturday 14th June at 2 pm Rachel Kay-Shuttlerworth of Gawthorpe Hall A film about the last member of the Shuttleworth family to live at Gawthorpe, Rachel made a superb collection illustrating a wide variety of textile craft techniques. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth’s collection is now in the care of a charitable trust and a selection is on display at the Hall. The […]
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Museum and Art Gallery, the Museum has taken over our scheduled programme and is providing Afternoon Tea with museum staff and invited guests. It will include a preview of the new display in the Hart Gallery The party starts at 3pm and booking is required If you have any quest […]
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Saturday 8th June at 2 pm Dr Jan Graffius, Curator at Stonyhurst College Museum For “Lady Macbeth” read “Uncle Donald” – How the Jesuits doctored Shakespeare. Drama was central to Jesuit education. Jan Graffius takes a light-hearted look at how they reconciled their comprehensively male students with the complex demands of Shakespeare’s plays. After the lecture there will be the […]
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John Turkington discusses Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece.
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Mike Millward, talks about medieval depictions of the Easter story, including works from the Hart Collection.
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Bobby, the Boy from the SAFF One of our members, Robert Svarc talks about the career of his father, Blackburn Rovers 1970s star Bobby Svarc.
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9th January: The little Black Dress, the Headscarf and the Veil. Social Anthropologist Mary Searle Chatterjee returns to discuss the multiple meanings of garments in a historical and cross-cultural perspective.
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Poisonous Pattern and Deadly Tastes: a glimpse into the wondrous wall coverings of the Victorian Era. A talk by Claire Williams, artist and designer.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, followed by a survey of progress and plans at the Museum by Rebecca Johnson, Museum Manager.
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