Talk by Sheelagh James. A stand-alone talk looking at foul deeds in the 18C. An examination of those who faced the ‘short drop’, from poisoners to body snatchers, from master killers to servant killers and more in between. Not for those of a delicate disposition!  

Everyone knows of the error which resulted in the deaths of many troops at the Charge of the Light Brigade, but this is by no means the only error nor does it come close to the biggest error in history. Hear how history has recorded some of the dopiest decisions, some of which can hardly have seemed the brightest idea at the time and even worse today. Speaker Anthony Poulton-Smith. Book tickets here   

 International Women’s Day Talk 2026 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: The First Woman Doctor Join us at Erasmus Darwin House to celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) — the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain, and a pioneer who transformed the future of women in medicine. “When I felt rather overcome with my father’s opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else — that I could not live without some…