A lunchtime talk Wiltshire Heritage Museum - The Museums Art Collection

A lunchtime talk on Wednesday 14 November by Bill Perry.

The Museum holds an extensive art collection, but little of it can be displayed. Come along and find out about some of the 8,000 plus prints and paintings in our collection. All the works are of Wiltshire places and scenes dating from the 17th century, many of which no longer exist.
This lecture, by the former Chairman of the Society, will discuss and illustrate as many of the important and interesting pictures in the collection as there is time for.

Lunchtime talks start at 1.10pm and last approx. 45 minutes. Bring your lunch - we will provide tea/coffee.

Our Lecture Hall is accessible via a lift if required, has a hearing loop and air conditioning.

Booking is not required - just come along
Cost: £4 (£3 WANHS members)

 

Source: http://wiltshireheritagemuseum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-museums-art-collection.html

 

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB Management Plan Review

Not sure what an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is? What is the AONB Partnership? What they have achieved so far? What would you like to see the AONB do?

From mid November to mid December, the AONB team will be visiting different village...halls around the AONB to hear your thoughts and ideas on topics and issues that affect you.

The team has to prepare a revised AONB Management Plan for 2014-19 and they need your input. The team will be visiting:

Bowerchalke – Tuesday 20th November

Sixpenny Handley – Thursday 22nd November

Tarrant Gunville – Wednesday 28th November

Chilmark – Thursday 29th November

Pen Selwood – Tuesday 4th December

Donhead St Mary – Wednesday 5th December

Damerham – Thursday 13th December

All sessions start after 7-9pm

 

www.ccwwdaonb.org.uk

A talk on PATHH – Providing Access To Hampshire’s Heritage 8th Jan 2013 Salsibury

Venue: Lecture Hall / Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Date: 08 Jan 2013
Time: 19:30
A talk by Stephen Fisher, Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. PATHH is a two year, HLF funded research project that makes use of historic maps to identify ‘lost’ rights of way around Hampshire. Across the countryside, numerous public routes have fallen out of use and failed to be recorded on the county’s definitive map. This project seeks to identify such routes that, were they to be re-instated, would be of benefit to modern countryside access. In this talk, project manager Stephen Fisher explains the origins of the project and the history of mapping in England.
A lecture in the Salisbury Museum Archaeology Lectures (SMAL) series. SMAL lectures are held on the second Tuesday of each month from September to April.

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/what-s-on/lectures/297-pathh-%E2%80%93-providing-access-to-hampshires-heritage.html

DORSET HISTORY NETWORK Fifth ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Saturday 10th November 2012.

DORSET HISTORY NETWORK

Fifth ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Saturday 10^th November 2012.

12.45 p.m. at the Priests House Museum, 23-27 High Street, Wimborne Minster BH21 1HR.

There is no charge for paid-up members only wishing to attend this A.G.M.

 

Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors - Revisited

Wiltshire Heritage Museum Sat 10th November

 

Julian will be updating some of the fascinating stories from his popular Meet the Ancestors TV Series.  He will discuss what has happened to the site and the discoveries over the last 10-12 years (yes it’s that long since the original series) as well as investigating how our perceptions of those periods have changed in this time.  So there a bigger picture to be painted rather than just the updated stories of the individual sites.

Julian says "It has been huge fun, travelling from Orkney to East Anglia, Yorkshire and the Cotswolds as well as closer to home in Dorset and Winchester.  I have enjoyed meeting up with the archaeologists and specialists that we worked with before, comparing how their work has changed and how much older we all look!"

Cost £6 (£3.50 for WANHS members).  Starts 2.30pm.

Please note:  advance bookings may be cancelled 14 days before the lecture if payment has not been received.

Ancient Tracks Exhibition at Salisbury Museum

Saturday 13 October 2012 - Saturday 26 January 2013. An exhibition of paintings and drawings that reflect one artist’s travels through the ancient sites of Wiltshire. Over the last 50 years, Philip Hughes has returned time and again to the Ridgeway, Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge. Informed by maps, photography and electronic survey techniques, his work ranges from accurate topographical observation to abstract and emotional representation of the landscape.

The exhibition coincides with the publication of the book on Hughes's work: Tracks: Walking the Ancient Landscapes of Britain (Thames & Hudson, 2012).

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/289-ancient-tracks.html

Village Reading Rooms in Wiltshire Lecture Devizes Museum 27th October 2012

2:30 pm, Saturday, 27 October, 2012

Find out more about the village reading rooms of Wiltshire, why they were built and the activities they hosted.
Reading Rooms were built in practically every village in Wiltshire between the 1850s and the 1920s. They were educational and social centres provided as alternatives to the public house. Tea was drunk rather than beer, and there were improving lectures a plenty. The buildings themselves are still mostly to be seen, often with agreeable date-stones. This significant aspect of Victorian village life has been forgotten and largely ignored by historians.

Ivor Slocombe has restored these village institutions to our consciousness. Formerly the County Education Officer for Wiltshire, Mr Slocombe sits on the committees of many historical bodies in the county. His study of Wiltshire Village Reading Rooms has recently been published by the Wiltshire Buildings Record, the admirable organisation – a spin-off from our Society – run by his wife, Mrs Pamela Slocombe.

http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/index.php?Action=2&thID=781&prev=1