With the onset of Britain’s third covid-19 lockdown within a year, Triskele Heritage will be stepping up to try and provide some (hopefully) entertaining and informative free public talks. The weekly lockdown lectures will feature the fruits of our research so you can be sure that the content will all be bang up to date!
Each week we will host a lockdown lecture freely accessible to anyone with a web connection via Zoom. All you need to do is register via Eventbrite and – when the time for the talk rolls around – grab your favourite beverage of choice, get comfy and enjoy.
Our first event will take place at 17:00GMT on Thursday 14 January 2021 and will focus on A Beginner’s Guide to Castles – What is a Castle?
Booking is now available via Eventbrite.
EDIT: Due to unexpected demand we have now extended our licensing agreement with Zoom. Tickets for each event will be limited to 495 places. although we do not expect to sell out again(!), if you cannot make it after booking, please do return your ticket so that someone else can enjoy the talk instead.
Please note that this is a live event only and there will not be a recording of the talk available afterwards.
More information on the talk
Mediaeval castles are diverse. No two are identical. Stretching across several centuries of use, their design changed radically from their arrival in Britain during the late Saxon period until they faded away in the mid-sixteenth century. Quite how we define these buildings is a problem and this talk will look at the chronological, social, economic, political and construction issues surrounding them.
The speaker, James Wright, is an award-winning buildings archaeologist. He has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval period. He has surveyed a number of mediaeval castles including the Tower of London, Nottingham Castle and Tattershall Castle.
