2024-25 PROGRAMME Our new season begins with our first meeting at 2pm on Tuesday, 8th October at Blackburn Museum & Art gallery The advertised speaker is unable to attend, and John Turkington will now talk on Greenland Myths and Folklore
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Next Thursday, at 12.30 pm on 27th June, Mike Millward will be giving one of his lunchtime talks at the Museum “WHOSE WAS IT?” How 4 items on display in the Hart Gallery reveal their owners The talk will last for about 30 minutes. It is free and all are welcome.
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Next Thursday, 13th June, Ken Ford will be giving one of his lunchtime talks at the Museum The talk is free and all are welcome.
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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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Encounters with Composers: A Musical talk by Raymond Watton PLEASE NOTE: In order to take advantage of the better acoustics, this talk will not be at the Museum, but in the Hilda Conference Room at Blackburn Cathedral.
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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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