Save the dates!

[Tim Clark]

The launch of the book on the history of St Mary's, Faire and goodly built: an incomplete history of St. Mary's Warwick will be on the evening of Thursday 27 April. Full details to follow.

There will also be three talks to help commemorate the 900th anniversary of the founding of the college: 

4 May 

Nigel Saul: Waking the dead: the messages of tombs. Nigel is emeritus professor of history at Royal Holloway college, University of London, and an expert on late medieval England. He has written numerous books, including the volume on Richard II for the prestigious and definitive series of biographies on English monarchs, published by Yale University Press. Nigel knows St. Mary's well, and will be including in his talk his thoughts on the tomb of Thomas Beauchamp and Katherine Mortimer.

11 May 

Andrew Hopper: Warwick castle in the Civil Wars. Andrew is professor of local and social history at the University of Oxford, and an expert on the Civil Wars.

25 May 

Andrew Graham-Dixon (title of talk tbc, but hopefully about Restoration art and the context of the 1678 Beauchamp chapel doom painting). Andrew is a well-known art historian and TV presenter, perhaps best known for his biography of Caravaggio, and for presenting Art, Passion and Politics, a BBC TV series made in conjunction with the Royal Collection.

It should be fun!

Tim