Ludlow Arts: Word
Wednesday 18 May 2022
2:00pm for 2:15pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Passionate Potters — from Morgan to Leach
Julian Richards
William Morris led a revolution against the products of the machine age. The first of our ‘passionate potters’, William de Morgan, was a friend of Morris who rediscovered the secrets of Near Eastern lustre glazes. In contrast, the eccentric and argumentative Martin Brothers created a range of elaborate salt glazed pots unparalleled in their imaginative breadth. ...read more...
Tuesday 24 May 2022
6:00pm
Castle Bookshop Garden — under cover if wet
Brian Page — 89
Introduced by Alistair McGowan
A poetry reading by possibly our oldest and newest local poet, Brian Page, who started writing poems at the age of 87. Now, aged 89, Brian will read a small selection of the 89 poems from his new book. ...read more...
Tuesday 31 May 2022
6:00pm
Castle Bookshop Garden — under cover if wet
The Mortimer Connections
Fran Norton
An evening with author Fran Norton who traces the Mortimer family connections and how they affected the destiny of this powerful Marcher family through the generations — for good and evil — and the questions they have left which still tantalize us to this day. ...read more...
There will be an opportunity to buy signed books by Fran Norton.
Monday 20 June 2022
7:00pm for 7:30pm
Ludlow LibraryE
Warring kings and battling prelates: the Staffordshire Hoard and seventh-century Britain
Leslie Webster
The talk will focus on the significance of the Staffordshire Hoard for our understanding of England in the seventh century, and in particular, the light it sheds on the rise of Mercia, and its relationship with other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. This was a period of great turbulence and change, political, social and religious, ...read more...
Tuesday 21 June 2022
2:00pm
Castle Bookshop
Ludlow's Greatest Lady — Cecily Neville
Annie Garthwaite
Reading from her acclaimed novel Cecily, author Annie Garthwaite will reveal Cecily in all her complex glory: wife, mother, politician, traitor, fighter and — ultimately — survivor. ...read more...
A Ludlow Fringe Festival event
Monday 16 January 2023
7:00pm for 7:30pm
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Deserted Mediaeval Settlements of the Clee Hill
Bernard O'Connor
Wandering the footpaths, bridleways and lanes around the Clee Hills one may have noticed some grassy lumps and bumps in the fields. Some are long and narrow, others square or rectangular. There was also what appear to be deep trenches running down a hillside, not valleys with a brook running down them but they might have water in them during and after wet weather. ...read more...