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SUMMARY:February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play
DESCRIPTION:Online via Zoom Conferencing  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the February Forum \n\n\n\n‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Miriam Gill \n\n\n\nThe cycle of Mystery Plays performed by the trade guilds of Coventry were famous in the later Middle Ages\, enjoyed by royalty and\, in their latter days\, probably seen by William Shakespeare. But only two plays survive; the famous ‘Coventry Carol’ comes from one. The other plays can only be reconstructed from some expenses of the ‘consumables’ and the visual culture of Coventry. This forum shares the ways how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of the cycle\, the Drapers’ play of the Last Judgement. \n\n\n\nAbout the presenter \n\n\n\nMiriam Gill is an expert in Medieval church painting. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the topic and has taught art history to adults at the universities of Leicester\, Cambridge and Oxford for many years.  She is also the Secretary of Leicester Vaughan College.  \n\n\n\nDetails of this Forum \n\n\n\nThis forum will take place using Zoom Conferencing. Please book your free place using the link below to get the joining details. It will start at 6.15pm and finish by 7.30pm \n\n\n\nClick here to get your ticket and Zoom link to this event.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/february-forum-piecing-together-traces-of-a-lost-coventry-mystery-play/
CATEGORIES:Vaughan Forum
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SUMMARY:March Forum: Promoting Leicester - A City of History and Progress
DESCRIPTION:Location: Leicester Adult Education College  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the March Forum \n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Sally Ann Hartshorne \n\n\n\nWhen the broadcaster Ray Gosling visited Leicester in the 1960s he said that if he had to show an American in one day what England was all about he would take them to Leicester as ‘it has all of old England\, our heritage\, well-kept and cared for but without the olde charm of a Canterbury.’  Yet he also bought a postcard featuring an image of the newly opened Lee Circle car park\, which represented a very modern up-to-date city.  This session will consider how the balance of the history and progress of Leicester has been promoted to visitors and residents since the council established its Publicity and Development Committee in the 1930s. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter \n\n\n\nSally Ann Hartshorne completed her doctoral thesis ‘City of History and Progress’: Heritage and Urban Development in Leicester 1934 to 2010‘ in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester.  She is the author of ‘Urban history ‘on the go’: Discovering and developing Leicester’s cultural quarter’\, published in Urban History (2020) and a Trustee for Leicester Civic Society. \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue TBC.  \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/march-forum-promoting-leicester-a-city-of-history-and-progress/
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SUMMARY:April Forum: Artists of the North West: The Lake District and Liverpool 
DESCRIPTION:Location: Leicester Adult Education College\, Room E1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the April Forum\n\n\n\nPresented by Dr Ellie Pridgeon  \n\n\n\nThis paper will examine art collections\, paintings and photographs held at Lakeland Arts\, the National Trust\, and Liverpool Record Office which document landscape and ways of life in nineteenth and twentieth-century Lakeland and Liverpool. Artists include painters Allan Tankard and Edward Lear\, and photographers Edward Chambré Hardman and Joseph Hardman. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter  \n\n\n\nEllie Pridgeon is an art historian and professional archivist. She teaches art history at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has taught for many years at the Attenborough Arts Centre.  She is currently working as an archivist for Liverpool City Archives. She is a Director of Leicester Vaughan College. You can find out about Ellie’s publications here.  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue: Leicester Adult Education College. \n\n\n\nGet tickets  \n\n\n\nTo help us with catering numbers\, please book your place for this free event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/april-forum-artists-of-the-north-west-the-lake-district-and-liverpool/
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SUMMARY:June Vaughan Forum: Life on a Tudor Manor - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Location: Leicester Adult Education College\, LE1 6QL\, Room E1 \n\n\n\nPlease note that this event has been cancelled – we are hoping to reschedule it later this year. \n\n\n\nAbout the June Forum \n\n\n\nPresented by Alison Coates \n\n\n\nLVC member Alison Coates will talk about her experiences of re-enactment at Kentwell Manor\, Long Melford\, Suffolk and knowledge of everyday life in the Tudor period. Over many years\, Alison has had variety of roles from spinner to upper servant to the sister of the Earl of Oxford. Historical accuracy is very important and very well researched for all Kentwell re-enactors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe talk will give a feel of what it was like to live in a village or manor in the Tudor period\, from the gentry in the house to beggars at the gate.  She will explain what a Tudor manor was and the three levels in Tudor society.  Other aspects of everyday life she will cover include: meals\, manners and food preparation; craftsmen and common folk; the kinds of tasks women did; and visitors to the manor.  \n\n\n\n\nAlison will illustrate her talk with photos and other sources from Kentwell Manor re-enactments.  She will come dressed as her Tudor alter ego Widow Jennyt Grooby\, greet us in the English of the period and will bring a basket of eating and cooking implements. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter  \n\n\n\nAlison has given talks about the Tudor history to various societies and organisations around Leicestershire. She has been a Heritage Warden for Groby for three decades.  \n\n\n\nEvent Details  \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue: Leicester Adult Education College. \n\n\n\nHow to get your free ticket \n\n\n\nPlease sign up HERE to let us know that you will be attending this talk. Doing this means we will know how many people to cater for and if the room will be sufficient.  You can cancel your ticket if you find that you are unable to attend.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/june-vaughan-forum-life-on-a-tudor-manor/
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SUMMARY:Archaeology Discovery Circle - Launch
DESCRIPTION:Leicester Vaughan College is launching its Archaeology Discovery Circle as part of the Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology. The launch will be on Tuesday 28 July 2026 at 2pm in the cafeteria of the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester. The group is free and open to all adults.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be lead and facilitated by Dr Ulla Rajala. It will be a democratic cooperative learning platform involving active participation\, co-learning and co-production. \n\n\n\nIn this founding meeting\, we will discuss what we will do within the Discovery Circle\, the best time and day for the meeting and the name of the group. We will work in collaboration with the Jewry Wall so some find handling will be available for the group. We may do city walks\, read articles\, watch Time Team videos and discuss varied topics – please bring along any suggestions! We will also discuss how we want to run the Circle such as setting ‘ground rules’ and how we want to communicate about our activities. You can get some ideas about this by looking at our City Explorer’s page. \n\n\n\nThe Archaeology Discovery Circle will be a reimagining of the Vaughan Archaeological and Historical Society that was founded by W. G. Hoskins. We will do no fieldwork (unless people want to involve in contemporary archaeology) as Leicestershire Fieldworkers do fieldwalking and geophysics nor will we have traditional lectures as that is for Leicestershire Fieldworkers/Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society.  \n\n\n\nSign up for this event here.
URL:https://vaughan.coop/course/archaeology-discovery-circle-launch/
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