WTHSoc Feb 2024 Meeting Details

 

Date - 23 Feb 2024
Time - 20:00 (Doors open 19:30)
Location - Weston Turville Village Hall
Title - "A Warning to Country Folk"
Speaker – Graham Harrison
Entrance - £2 members, £3 visitors

Tales from the Elizabethan Underworld;

An often light-hearted examination of some of the cons, swindles and outright thievery practiced on unwary visitors in 16th Century London. Both shocking and amusing - and you thought the city was dangerous now!

This talk comes to us from the Sun Jester group of historian/educators. They last entertained us in March last year with Towse Harrison’s “Science and Superstition – Medicine in the Roman Empire”

Graham is a freelance Educator and historian.


The meeting starts at 8pm in the village hall and is open to all. Entrance £2 for members and £3 visitors. Doors open at 19:30 for welcoming refreshments. For further information about the Society visit the Society’s web page www.WTHSoc.org.uk or email Secretary@WTHSoc.org.uk

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