TALKS AND EVENTS
Friday 28th March 2025
Scheduled Talks for 2025
Friday 28th March 2025 (Ev)
Hedingham History Group
Hedingham Bapist Church
177 Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3PX
Subject. The Riddle of Boudica
See poster at head of this page
Wednesday 23rd April 2024 (ev)
Leigh Heritage
Leigh on Sea
Subject, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
with David Dunford
Monday 19th May 2025 (Am)
Rayleigh Townswomen’s Guild
Rayleigh
Subject, 366 Days in Essex
Thursday 22nd May (Pm)
Southend & Westcliff Jewish Community Centre
Westcliff-in-Sea
Subject, Family Life Story (to be confirmed)
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
Thursday 4th September 2025
Broxbourne Family and Social History Group
Broxbourne
Subject, Snatched from Essex (am)
Scheduled Talks for 2026
Friday 30th March 2026 (Ev)
The Harwich Society
Harwich
The Tunnel That Never Was
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
Andrew Summers | Public Speakers in the UK (publicspeakerscorner.co.uk)
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