Ludlow Arts: Word
Wednesday 20 October 2021
2:00pm for 2:15pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Sandy Burnett
Misshapen Pearl: an overview of music in the baroque era
Starting in 1607 with Monteverdi's astonishing opera Orfeo, and ending in 1759 with the death of that great ‘English’ composer George Frideric Handel, the Baroque era produced music of great brilliance and emotional depth. In helping to navigate us through its choppy waters, Sandy draws ...read more...
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Thursday 21 October 2021
7:00pm for 7:30pm
Shropshire Museums Collection Centre
Nigel Baker
The Lost Georgian Summerhouse and other discoveries at Attingham Park
In 2018 an archeological investigation connected with proposed works at Attingham Park revealed the foundations of a building previously assumed to date from WW2. ...read more...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
10:00am
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Alasdair Dick-Cleland
Rescuing ruins in the Marches — the work of the Landmark Trust
The Landmark Trust is a British building conservation charity, founded in 1965 by Sir John and Lady Smith, that rescues buildings of historic interest or architectural merit and then makes them available for holiday rental. ...read more...
Wednesday 17 November 2021
4:30pm
Ludlow Methodist Church
John Cartwright
Charles Darwin: the Shropshire Lad who transformed thought
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809. He was the grandson of two members of the Lunar Society, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, and had a varied education at Shewsbury School, Edinburgh University and Christ's College Cambridge. ...read more...
Sunday 21 November 2021
4:00pm
The Sitting Room, The Blue Boar, Mill Street
Pamela Petro
The Long Field - Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
Pamela Petro, the American author of Travels in an Old Tongue — Touring the World Speaking Welsh will give a reading from her new book The Long Field - Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir. ...read more...