Looking for a fun, hands-on activity for your little artist? Bring them along to our creative craft session where they will make their very own garden themed crafts to take home. While visiting the museum take advantage of the Dr Erasmouse trail. Find the clues and win a knitted mouse! All children free. Adults £5  

Lichfield Cathedral houses a war memorial to the soldiers who defeated Punjab's Sikh Empire in the 1840s. But on the losing side of the Anglo-Sikh Wars stood a woman: Maharani (Queen) Jind Kaur - Queen Regent, separated from her only child, imprisoned, and exiled - leaving her ten-year-old son, Maharaja Duleep Singh, to surrender the Koh-i-Noor diamond to the Queen of England - and the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab with it. If Queen Jind Kaur of Punjab was defeated, then…

If you are intrigued by the stranger side of medieval history, this ten-week lecture course might be for you! The Middle Ages were a dark age, filled with superstition and wild beliefs in supernatural things…weren’t they? In this exploratory and fun course, we can expect to meet readers of omens and practitioners of magic; saints and heretics; miracles and monsters. But we will also dive into what people at the time actually believed about the nature of their world, and…

A deliciously dark set of traditional tales from around the world. From the hideous flesh-eating Wendigo of Native American folklore to the sinister and seductive slit mouthed woman of Japan, join us, if you dare, for an evening of dark deeds… Professional storyteller Maria Credali returns with a pocket full of brand new (and at the same time, very old) tales to terrify and tickle you. Some of these stories are legends, some are folklore, but some are true… Fabulously…

Free entry to the sale. All proceeds go towards the running of this independent museum and charity. Any donations of jigsaws will be gratefully received.

Tales from the Coroner’s Casebook – Life and Death in Georgian South Staffordshire and the Black Country.  Part One: 1801-1826. This illustrated presentation examines cases of sudden or unexplained deaths, presided over by Henry Smith Esq. - Coroner of the County of Stafford - between 1801 and 1842.  These include: domestic and industrial accidents, manslaughter, murders, suicides and ‘visitations of God.’  Who was this coroner, and what do his inquest reports tells us about life, as well as death, in…

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? Was Queen Victoria the first queen to have a Christmas tree in a royal residence? Which king first ate turkey at Christmas? And how have other cultures and empires left their mark on Christmas today? These and many more questions are answered in 'Christmas Past', a festive look at the development of Christmas throughout the ages.

In 2014, Noor Inayat Khan (1914 – 1944) was featured on a Royal Mail stamp. But who was this WW2 British-Indian secret agent and princess? Returning to the theme of princesses, join Sundeep Braich for an exploration of the life, courage, and sacrifice of The WW2 Spy Princess.

‘For centuries ‘small beer’ was one of the safest drinks in the nation, drunk by men, women and children. This talk looks not only at ale, beer and porter in the Georgian period, but where it was served, what it was served in and who drank it, the zenith of the coaching era, the growth of the breweries and a notorious brewery explosion.’