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Lectures held on the night of the full moon
April 2024
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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Lunar Lecture – Boys will be Girls will be Boys, the theatre pre and post Restoration by Janet Tennant
Boys will be Girls will be Boys- the theatre pre and post Restoration by Janet Tennant By the 17th century a professional theatre was established in England. After the execution of Charles I and the Civil Wars, Charles II, the Merry Monarch, a keen theatre goer, succeeded to the throne in 1660. The talk looks at the theatre before the Restoration and how it changed, irrevocably, afterwards. Book tickets here
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