TALKS AND EVENTS
Hadleigh Heritage Events 2023
Scheduled Talks for 2023
Wednesday 25th January 2023
Bowers Gifford U3A
Bowers Gifford
Subject, The Riddle of Boudica
Monday 30th January 2023
Witham History Group
Witham
Subject, The Riddle of Boudica
Tuesday 31st January 2023
Trinovante
Romford
Subject, The Riddle of Boudica
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Thorndon WI
Ingrave
Subject, The Strange History of Poets Corner
Wednesday 8th February 2023
Theydon Bois Men’s Forum
Theydon Bois
Subject. Battlefield Essex
Wednesday 15th February 2023
Probus Fyfield
Hatfield Heath
Subject, Snatched from Essex
Tuesday 21st February 2023
Bardfield Ladies Club
Bardfield near Mistley Essex
Subject: Battlefield Essex
Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Hadleigh Village WI
Hadleigh, Essex
Subject, Snatched from Essex
Thursday 23rd March 2023
The Ladies Club
Rayleigh
Subject Full Circle with David Dunford
Wednesday 19th July 2023
Blackwater Probus
Heybridge, Maldon
Subject: Battlefield Essex
Friday 28th July 2023
Chafford Hundred Probus Club
Shenfield
Subject Essex Farm, They Did Their Duty
Thursday 12th October 2023
Great Baddow Horticulture Society
Great Baddow
Subject. Snatched from Essex
Thursday 7th December
Tiptree U3A
Tiptree
Subject, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
with David Dunford
Scheduled Talks for 2024
Thursday 2nd March 2024
Hedingham Heritage Society
Castle Hedingham
Subject. The Riddle of Boudica
Thursday 4th April 2024
Tiptree U3A
Tiptree
Subject: The Riddle of Boudica
New Talk
The Roman occupation of Britain lasted over 350 years. In AD 60, seventeen years after the Romans arrived, Queen Boudica led an uprising which resulted in the destruction of Colchester, London and St Albans. The rebellion was short lived and resulted in a harsh crackdown.
Yet in later years Roman rule was interrupted by several uprisings and incursions by the ‘natives’. In AD 185 part of the occupying Roman Army mutinied and 100 years later the Roman Commander Marcus Aurelius Carausius proclaimed himself Emperor of an independent Britain. Yet, in turn, the insurrections were supressed, the mutiny put down, the usurper overthrown and Roman rule returned to more or less normal.
Yet, despite of all the upheavals in the British Isles during Rome’s long tenure, it is only Boudica who is especially remembered.
This illustrated talk explores the ‘facts’ of Boudicca’s rebellion so far as it is known and examines the resultant Heritage, Legacy and Mythology grown up around it.
For a list of topics see our entry on Public Speakers Corner
Andrew Summers | Public Speakers in the UK (publicspeakerscorner.co.uk)
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