Events at the Heritage Hub
On Saturday 9th May you are welcome to join us for 'Strike' an afternoon of talks to celebrate the centenary of the General Strike, 1-4pm
On Saturday 6th June, in the month of the Football World Cup, we are investigating our local sporting heritage in Gloucester. Robin Mogg, chairman of Gloucester City AFC, will be giving a talk on the history of the club and there will also be a document display of archives featuring all types of sport - football, rugby, bowls, tennis just to name a few. This event, titled 'We're having a ball...' will run between 1-3pm.
On Saturday 4th July, we are hosting the event 'Heritage Matters'. Archives staff will be joined by conservators, museum curators, heritage volunteers, family history experts from the Gloucestershire Family History and Sue Webb, from Gloucestershire Police Archives. John Putley, Community Heritage Officer at Gloucestershire Archives will be talking about heritage crafts 'we used to do' and Karen Davidson, Berkeley Castle Archivist, will be discussing her work as an estate archivist illustrated by 15 significant documents. There will be 'behind the scenes' tours of Gloucestershire Archives strongrooms, demonstrations, 'name the object' activities and films throughout the event. And there will be an opportunity to taste cakes and biscuits made from recipes held in various collections at the Archives. The Heritage Hub garden will also be open so we have pre-ordered sunshine! It should be a fun afternoon.
To book your place at any of these events please go to https://www.heritagehub.org.uk/events/
And if you can't make it in person, please remember to check out our online Secrets Revealed sessions using the same link above. Alternatively take a look at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub's YouTube channel or our growing bank of online exhibitions based on these talks here
Events at John Moore Museum, Tewkesbury
The archive collection of John Moore of Tewkesbury, author, countryside campaigner and founding member of the Cheltenham Literary Festival is held at Gloucestershire Archives, catalogue reference D8451. In recent years, staff from the John Moore Museum in Tewkesbury have provided talks for the Heritage Hub's Saturday events and we have recently hosted a visit of the John Moore Society at Gloucestershire Archives. Therefore, we are happy to spread the word about their upcoming events:
