Events

Cromwell Association Study Day - Interpreting Cromwell and the Civil War

Saturday 12th November 2016

The Study Day will be held in the Bury Theatre at the Royal Armouries, Armouries Drive, Leeds, LS10 1LT. 

 

The programme for the day is as follows:

 

10:30 Registration and Coffee

 

11:00 Welcome and Introduction - Professor Peter Gaunt, University of Chester

 

​11:15 Collecting Cromwell: how Cromwell and the civil wars have been interpreted in musuems and gallaries - John Goldsmith, Cromwell Association

 

11:50 From Altars to Apps:  Battlefield interpretation over 1,000 years - Simon Marsh, Battlefields Trust

 

12:25 Can we truly understand Cromwell, the man? Living history and its value in bringing the past to life - Dr Ceri Jones, University of Leicester

 

13:00 Buffet lunch

 

14:00 The challenge of building and operating the National Civil War Centre - Michael Constantine, NCWC, Newark

 

14:35 Managing the Civil War: conserving sites or ideas? - Keith Emerick, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Historic England, York

 

15:10 The Royal Armouries and the Civil War: Past, Present and Future - Keith Dowen, Royal Armouries

 

15:45 Round table discussion and conclusions

 

16:00 End of Study Day

 

Tickets are £52.50 or £37.50 for Cromwell Association and Battlefield Trust members and Full-time students.  Tickets, which include refreshments on arrival and a buffet lunch, can be booked on line through the Cromwell Association at http://www.olivercromwell.org where more details about the Study Day are available

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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