Past Events
September 2025
Heritage Open Days
To celebrate Heritage Open Days the museum will be free to enter on Friday 12 September and Saturday 13 September 2025.
Find out more »The Friends of Erasmus Darwin House invite you to – Sandfields Pumping Station
We have a message from Sandfields. It reads: - ‘‘We would love to welcome you to Sandfields Pumping Station to discover this little gem in Lichfield. You will be whisked back in time to a world of heavy industry, smoke and cholera pandemics. You will be introduced to the genius of a man who came up with a system to supply clean water from Lichfield all the way to the Black Country. By doing so it doubled life expectancy of the working family. In small personal…
Find out more »October 2025
Tom Hiccup’s Well by Free Roam Theatre
Tom Hiccup’s Well, a dark, twisted folk horror tale exploring desire, murder and capricious Nature, by local writer Charlotte Ball Ever had the hiccups and wondered why? The folk of Grendel have always understood – respect Tom Hiccup, leave his well alone and he’ll leave you in peace. Anger him and who knows what may happen. The old spirits are like that. But sometimes, the indifference of Nature becomes a force for justice. When a man commits the ultimate…
Find out more »ANGLO-SAXON LIFE – In Lichfield and Beyond (10 week history course)
Do you love history? Are you looking to learn something new this October? This exploratory and fun history course touches on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon life, acting as a great introduction to the period. Over the course of ten weeks, you will enjoy weekly lectures and discussions on a variety of topics, such as: Archaeology The early medieval Church Old English writing and poetry Medicine and Magic The Viking incursions Local history Each week will start…
Find out more »Vikings in Mercia: Repton, the Saint and the Viking. Sold Out!
Presented by Dr Charlotte Ball. In the early medieval period, the village of Repton was the setting for dramatic events involving monarchs, murder and marauding Vikings. It was, at various times, a burial ground of kings and a military stronghold. This talk examines the stories two men who were buried at Repton “ a Saint and a Viking “ and looks at what recent archaeology can tell us about our local history and the Viking age.
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