Friday 25 October 2013

Upcoming Talks at Hastings History House

The Rock-a-Nore Story with Ken Brooks
Saturday 9th November 2013 – 5.30 PM
£2.50

Christmas Day in the Workhouse with Dorothy & Judith Kinnison Bourke
Saturday 7th December 2013 – 5.30PM
£3

Twenty-Five Years as a Local Tour Operator with Clive Richardson
Saturday 11th January 2014, 5.30PM
£3

Specific reminders will be posted a week or so before each event.

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Sunday 20 October 2013

Artscape: Muriel Matters!

Muriel Matters was a South Australian actress who moved to London in 1905 and became a pivotal figure in the suffragette movement. Matters made a remarkable contribution to the fight for women's right to vote but her story is surprisingly little-known by most Australians. Through archive footage, interviews and dramatic reconstruction Muriel Matters! explores how this extraordinary woman got lost from history, and reveals what her story tells us about the links between art, politics and women's rights in England and Australia…………

Good precis, worth a read, but am denied access to the video.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3864731.htm

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Sunday 13th October 11 am Tree walk in Hastings Cemetery

Just to remind you or let you know that Sunday 13th October at 11 am Dr Owen Johnson will lead a tree walk in Hastings Cemetery.  We meet by the car park.

Owen is the author of the Sussex Tree Book and is our local expert on all things aboricultural.

http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/

Tuesday 8 October 2013