Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 3rd April 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG

Description: This talk explores perceptions of the pre-historic past in seventeenth-century Britain. It considers how reformers and antiquaries understood and explained ancient monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury, together with the ways in which these sites were the focus for religious and political passions and tensions before, during and after the Civil Wars. It traces how legends and myths about the making of the landscape evolved and the mark that they continue to leave on contemporary understanding of these evocative and mysterious places.

Price: Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £3

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Website: https://www.facebook.com/HistoricalAssociationIW

Organiser: Historical Association Isle of Wight Branch

Lecturer: Professor Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and President of the Historical Association

Region: South-East England