Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey & Coifs

Tuesday 17 October at Matthews Hall: 12noon (11.45 Doors Open) Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs, 17th century in costume. By Janet Few Title: Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors   ‘Why do you need a bum roll?’ ‘What colour were carrots in the C17th?’ ‘What did the Cavaliers use for…

Jane Austen’s Purse

 History in Coins from the Restoration to the Great Recoinage of 1817.  Tuesday 19 September at Matthews Hall: 12 noon (11.45 am Doors Open) Jane Austen’s Purse. History of coinage from the Restoration 1817. By David Brandreth. More information to follow 

A Cracking Museum

Tuesday 18 July at Matthews Hall: 12 noon (11.45 am Doors Open) A Cracking Museum – the illustrated story of the refurbishment of RAMM 2008-2010. By Alan Caig. A Cracking Museum is made up of the extensive photographic archive of the project, from the “before” to the “after”, while the “during” shows just how far gone the…

Recycling

Tuesday 20 June at Matthews Hall: 12noon (11.45 am Doors Open) Recycling by Lucy Mottram More information to follow

A Century of Film Costume Design

Tuesday 16 May at Matthews Hall: 12 noon (11.45 am Doors Open) A Century of Film Costume Design. By Keith Lodwick In this illustrated talk, curator and writer Keith Lodwick will explore how period films in the 20th century have been depicted through the lens of costume design. From the Edwardian finery of Titanic (1997) to the gritty…

Floods along the Exe

Tuesday 18 April at Matthews Hall: 12 noon (Doors Open 11.45 ) Floods along the Exe – past, present and future. By John Davidson This talk will look at the long history of floods in the River Exe catchment, and the catastrophic floods in 1960. The building of the Exeter Flood relief scheme, and the…