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October 2023
Ghosts of Lichfield – Now Sold Out
Prepare to search out the spooks and gaze at the ghouls in this fiendishly spooky talk about the ghosts of Lichfield with tour guide Jono Oates, in the haunted, atmospheric and decidedly creepy cellars of Erasmus Darwin House! Lichfield is home to many ghosts and all kinds of paranormal activity and Jono will tell you spine-tinglingly scary tales of Lichfield's ghosts from over the centuries “ be prepared to stifle your screams and hide behind the nearest chair! The talk,…
Find out more »November 2023
Lichfield’s Largest Jigsaw Sale
Lichfield Largest Jigsaw Sale returns again this year. The museum will be closed to visitors for the duration of the sale of preloved and new jigsaws. All money raised will go to support the Erasmus Darwin Foundation. If anyone has any jigsaws they would like to donate please drop them into the museum between 11am and 4pm Mon-Sun. We can often collect the jigsaws if required.
Find out more »Christmas Wreath Making Workshop & Cream Tea. FULLY BOOKED.
Get in the mood for Christmas! Learn how to create a colourful festive wreath. All equipment will be provided to make your wreath to take home. After the workshop enjoy a delicious cream tea.
Find out more »Lunar Lecture – The Poetics of Romantic Ecology: Erasmus Darwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley by Dr Amanda Blake Davis
In a well-known botanical poem, The Sensitive-Plant, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley draws upon the eroticised, emotive plants of Erasmus Darwin's Loves of the Plants, where Darwin's 'chaste mimosa' gives rise to Shelley's loveless 'sensitive-plant'. In the lesser known 'Unfinished Drama', a mysterious 'magic plant' grows, snake-like, muddling the categories of plant and animal. Centring on these two poems, this talk will explore Shelley's ecological poetics through his interrelationship with Darwin. Tickets available here
Find out more »Lichfield in the English Civil War – A City Divided – CANCELLED
UNFORTUNATELY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. ALL TICKET HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE A REFUND. If you do not receive a refund by 12 December please contact the office on 01543 306260 From the winter of 1642, to the summer of 1646, the city of Lichfield was torn apart during the English Civil War. Lichfield historian, and tour guide, Jono Oates, tells the story of the three sieges of Lichfield Cathedral, the dramatic death of Lord Greville Brooke,…
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