Upcoming Events
March 2024
Cellar Tour 2024
Learn more about part of the house that is not normally open to the public on this fascinating cellar tour. Please be aware that there are steps down to the cellar and the cellar floor is very uneven. Minimum age 12 years.
Find out more »April 2024
Syllabub & Seedcake A Talk by Linden Green.
Kitchens and Cookery in Georgian Times. "The Georgian era is famous, or infamous, for excess and nowhere is this more apparent than in the dining room." Tea/ coffee included in ticket price.
Find out more »“Let My Quick Fate a Warning Be”………Fatal Transport Accidents in the West Midlands 1820 -1920, presented by Quintin Watt
This illustrated presentation deals with various accidents that involved the region’s stage-coaches, canals, railways and trams. What ‘Health & Safety’ lessons were learnt from these many tragic mishaps? Tickets include Tea and Coffee Quintin taught History at a high school in Bromsgrove for 39 years. He has completed two Masters Degrees, in West Midlands Regional History (1993) and Britain and the First World War (2022). Quintin has written several articles for local history magazines. He has also edited two books:…
Find out more »The Good, The Bad And The Deadly.
A talk by Sheelagh James. Medicine (but not as we know it!) in the Georgian Period. 'It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not infrequently the last of a diseased family.‘ Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Tea/coffee included in ticket price.
Find out more »Lunar Lecture – ‘For all our people’:the establishment of a public library service in Victorian Birmingham.by Steve Hewett
‘For all our people’: the establishment of a public library service in Victorian Birmingham. Steve Hewett is a retired university librarian with an interest in local and regional history. He is in his final year of doctoral research for a PhD, investigating the development of civic culture in Birmingham during the late eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries, in particular looking at the campaign for a free library service which began in the 1850s. Book tickets here
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