Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 8th November 2024

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Reading School, Lecture Theatre

Description: This lecture 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.

How to book: Booking not required. Pre-lecture supper bookings to r.a.houlbrooke@reading.ac.uk

Price: £3 - Free to HA members, Associates and Students

Email: sexton44@gmail.com

Organiser: HA Reading Branch

Lecturer: Professor Alexandra Walsham (university of Cambridge and HA President)

Region: South-East England

Branch: Reading