Gloucester History Festival 2018

 

Dates for your diary: 1^st-16^th September

The Heritage Hub features prominently in this year’s History Festival.   The whole festival runs from 1^st to 16^th September.   It starts with the Gloucester Day followed by the City Voices programme, 2^nd-16^th September.  City Voices events are organised by community groups across Gloucestershire, including many Hub partners.   The Blackfriars Talks featuring high profile historians run from Saturday 8^th to Sunday 16^th September.   Gloucester’s Heritage Open Days run from Thursday 14^th September to Sunday 16^th September and offer free entry to many of the city’s historic buildings.

On Sunday 2^nd September, we invite you all to join us at the Heritage Hub in Alvin Street for our first ever community open day and tea party – drop in between 10am and 4pm.  This will be the first opportunity for most people to see the major transformation of Gloucestershire Archives.

Other highlights include:

• Tues 4^th Sept: Workshop based on estate agent’s brochures, and house history lecture by author, Melanie Backe-Hansen
• Thurs 6^th Sept: Dowty and Fielding & Platt events; the launch of a project on mental health history (Blackfriars); and documentaries on the Windrush generation (Guildhall).
• Friday 7^th Sept: Cheltenham Before the Spa – talk by John Chandler
• Sat 8^th Sept: Gloucester’s Royal Charters – exhibition and talk – come and see the results of recent work on these iconic documents at Blackfriars Priory.
• Sun 9^th Sept: How to read old handwriting workshop (Blackfriars Scriptorium).
• Mon 10^th Sept: Talk and tour at Gloucester Rugby Club
• Tues 11^th Sept: House of Memories reminiscence session (Quedgeley Library)
• Wed 12^th Sept: Scriptorium Tag – 10 lectures on Gloucestershire’s history.
• Thurs 13^th Sept: Great Gloucestershire Gargoyle walks
• Fri 14^th Sept: Lost Churches of Gloucester walks
• Sat 15^th Sept: Discoveries at the Archives – 4 bitesized talks: Gloucester Castle accounts, Dame Joan Cook, Cycling and rugby players in WW1.   Also children’s activities based on medieval castles.
• Sun 16^th Sept: Shire Hall talk and tour.
• Three exhibitions at the Heritage Hub during the History Festival – Tales of the Vale (lower River Severn); Joan Cook, founder of Crypt grammar school; 100 years of women policing.

Full details of all these events will be available week commencing 23^rd July 2018.

 

  

Palaeography                                               Scriptorium Tag                                   Meet the Highwayman

Brochures for 2018 will be available from Gloucestershire Heritage Hub and on the History Festival website.  

Booking opens week commencing 23^rd July.   To book, you can call the box office on 01452 396572, visit the Gloucester Tourist Information Centre, or go online at www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk .   Many events sold out last year so we recommend early booking.  

We look forward to seeing you and your friends and family at the History Festival.