We're delighted to now have tickets on sale for our Winter Lecture Series, which this year will be held online. We're very grateful to have a great range of speakers and subjects talk on different aspects of #17thCentury history! 😀Thread 1/6 Image
On Wednesday 13 January historian @_paullay will be talking about 'Providence Lost: Cromwell's Western Design', the story of Cromwell's disastrous attempt to seize Spain's Caribbean territories and its impacts - more details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/providence-l… Thread 2/6 Image
On Wednesday 20 January historian @17thCenturyLady will be talking about 'Sex and Sexuality in Stuart England', providing a peek beneath the bedsheets of 17th century folk and saucy secrets of the Royal Stuarts. More details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-and-sexu… Thread 3/6 Image
On Wednesday 27 January novelist and historian @MirandaMalins will be talking about 'Imagining the Cromwells', the challenges of bringing historical figures to life in a novel, as she has recently with the Cromwell family. More details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-th… Thread 4/6 Image
On Wednesday 3 February Steve Ellis & Mark Beattie-Edwards from the @SaveTheLondon project will be talking on 'London: Cromwell's 'Mary Rose'', the project to save the remarkably preserved wreck of a 17th century warship. Details at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cromw… Thread 5/6 Image
More details on the whole series and discounted season tickets for all 4 talks can be found at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cromwell-mus…. Discounted tickets are available for members of the Friends of the Museum - details on joining the Friends can be found at: cromwellmuseum.org/support/friend… Thread 6/6

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