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May 2023
A Perfect Paradise: Shaping Shugborough
A member of Shugborough’s garden team will take you on a journey to discover the history of the estate, and how they honour, conserve, share, champion and enhance Shugborough, together with their future plans. After a short break for tea/coffee members of Erasmus Darwin House Garden Team will take you on a tour of the award winning herb garden. book tickets here
Find out more »June 2023
Cellar Tour
See part of the house that is normally closed to the public, on this interesting cellar tour. Please note: the cellar floor is uneven and accessed by a series of steps. It is therefore unsuitable for those with mobility issues. Book tickets here
Find out more »Lunar Lecture – ‘A short, fat little democrat’ and a pioneering doctor, scientist and poet: Thomas Beddoes and the legacy of the Lunar Society by Professor Tim Fulford
Thomas Beddoes was Erasmus Darwin’s self-appointed protege: he, like Darwin welcomed revolutions — whether the French Revolution in politics, the revolution in geology that showed the earth was millions of years old, or the revolution in chemistry that discovered oxygen. In the 1790s, he set up the world’s first scientific research institute — the Pneumatic Institution -- in Bristol. Funded by Darwin and his Lunar Society friends the Wedgwoods, the Watts and James Keir, it aimed to create a revolutionary…
Find out more »July 2023
Cellar Tour
See part of the house that is normally closed to the public, on this interesting cellar tour. Please note: the cellar floor is uneven and accessed by a series of steps. It is therefore unsuitable for those with mobility issues. Book tickets here
Find out more »Dorian Grey by Don’t Go into the Cellar Theatre Company – Now Sold Out
Oscar Wilde's only novel is adapted for the stage in this atmospheric one-man show. What awful secret is stored inside the attic? Only the eternally youthful and charming Dorian Gray knows. But as his appetite for sin leads to ever greater acts of wickedness, Gray will stop at nothing to make sure no one discovers the dreadful truth! Award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin plays Oscar Wilde in a play scripted by himself and co-directed by Gary Archer. Book tickets here
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