TALKS AND EVENTS
Scheduled Talks for 2024
Tuesday 15th October (Mi)
Leigh on Sea Probus Club
Southend on Sea
Subject,The Riddle of Boudica
Friday 25th October 2024 (Am)
Elmhurst Court
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Subject,The Riddle of Boudica
Saturday 2nd November 2024 (AM)
Hadleigh Heritage
Subject,The Salvation Army
Hadleigh Farm Colony from 1891
See poster above for details
Tuesday 5th November/Wednesday 6th November 2025 (day)
Southend City College,
Presentation WWI Illustrated
IN FLANDERS FIELD
Friday 8th November 2024
2.00 – 3.30pm
Dee Gordon
Writers on Sea
Local Panel Writers
The Forum, Southend Central Library
Elmer Ave, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1NS
Tickets available from October 17th 2024
southendlibraries.eventbrite.com
Friday 29th November 2024 (Lu)
Chafford Hundred Probus Club
Shenfield
Subject, Magna Carta in Essex
Thursday 12th December 2024
An Evening with Dee Gordon
Author. Famous Essex Authors (You have never heard of)
| 7pm | £5 |
Maldon Books
21-23 High Street
Maldon Essex CM9 5P Tel: 01621 854968
Booking click below
https://maldonbooks.com/an-evening-with-dee-gordon
Scheduled Talks for 2025
Wednesday 26th February 2025
Baddow and Galleywood U3A
Great Baddow
Subject, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
with David Dunford
Saturday 1st March 2025 (Lu)
East London Family History Society
Upminster
Subject The Unseen Enemy
Friday 7th March 2025 (Ev)
Braintree Museum
Braintree
Subject, Snatched from Essex
Tuesday 11th March 2025 (am)
Terling Ladies
Terling
366 Days in Essex
Monday 19th May 2025 (Am)
Rayleigh Townswomen’s Guild
Rayleigh
Subject, 366 Days in Essex
Wednesday 19th March 2025 (Ev)
Leigh Heritage
Leigh-on-Sea
Subject, Battlefield Essex
Friday 28th March 2025 (Ev)
Hedingham History Group
Hedingham Bapist Church
177 Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3PX
Subject. The Riddle of Boudica
Wednesday 11th June 2025 (pm)
High County Ladies Group
Toot Hill
Subject, The Unseen Enemy
Thursday 3rd July 2025 (am)
Probus Club one
Bury St.Edmunds
Subject. The Numbers Had to Tally
Thursday 3rd July 2025 (Ev)
Hedingham Heritage Society
Castle Hedingham
Subject, Battlefield Essex
Friday 29th August 2025 (Ev)
Hedingham History Group
Hedingham Bapist Church
177 Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3PX
Subject. To be advised
New Talk
The Riddle of Boudica
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
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