Surrey Heritage Tactile Book Competition
This summer, museums throughout Surrey will be creating tactile storybooks for visually impaired children aged 3-12. The books will be made at museums in Surrey during FREE workshops with visually impaired children and families local to the museum.
Please click the link for further information about this event.
If you would like more information about the project or are interested in being involved please ring 01483 518739 or email Kate Stuart at kate.stuart@surreycc.gov.uk
Identification and Recording of Finds
Second Saturday of each month 11am to 1pm at Guildford Museum
01483 444750
As part of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, come along to Guildford Museum and see David Williams, Surrey Finds Liaison Officer. For metal detectorists and other finders of objects of archaeological interest.
WOKING PALACE EVENTS
Visit the 8-acre moated site of the medieval Manor and Tudor Palace of Woking, with its vaulted undercroft and Tudor walls beside the River Wey.
Woking Palace Open Day
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July 2009, 10am-5pm FREE
Tours of the site of Woking Palace and hands-on artifact handling and craft activities organised by the Friends of Woking Palace in association with Surrey Heritage.
For directions and further details go to:
www.woking-palace.org/events/visitus
Woking Palace Community Archaeological Excavation
22 July - 7 August 2009
Come and participate in a community archaeological excavation of Woking Palace organised by Surrey County Archaeological Unit, Friends of Woking Palace and Surrey Archaeological Society.
Please contact Abby Guinness, Community Archaeologist, for more details of how to participate on 01483 518772, abby.guinness@surreycc.gov.uk
Woking Palace Excavation Open Day
Sunday 9 August 2009, 1pm-4pm
(last tour departs at 4pm) FREE
Tours of the above excavation of Woking Palace
For directions and further details go to:
www.woking-palace.org/events/visitus
Ahoy me mateys!
Drop in family activities FREE
Saturday 25 July- Friday 28 August 2009 at Surrey History Centre
Join us at the Surrey History Centre for some summer pirate fun. Follow the treasure map, dress like a pirate and learn some pirate words.
Available during normal
opening hours
Parents/Guardians are responsible for supervising their children
British Science Festival
Inspiring Science: Museums Can Do It!
Saturday 5 September – Thursday 10 September at Surrey University, Guildford
Catch up with Surrey Museums at the science festival to discover the inspirational ways in which museums are connecting with science.
You’ll get the chance to:
Guess - what museum objects are and what they were used for
Sniff - smells from the past and present
Sort – museum objects from oldest to newest
Touch - see and handle weird and wonderful collections.
Science Behind the Scenes Tour
Date: TBC at the Surrey History Centre
A fascinating behind the scenes look at the science of heritage conservation. Visit us for a unique insight into the practical application of science in preserving and conserving Surrey’s heritage from Surrey museums, galleries and our archive conservators.
For further information please contact Haidee Thomas 01483 518052 Haidee.Thomas@surreycc.gov.uk
HERITAGE OPEN DAY
Discover High Ashurst
Friday 11 September and Saturday 12 September
Since September 2007, groups of young people have been working with archaeologists to uncover the footprint of the demolished stately house at High Ashurst. This event includes a guided tour of the site, the chance to meet and see archaeologists in action (and have a go yourself if you wish), as well as looking at some of the discoveries and archive materials.
Tours start at 10am, 12.30pm, 3pm, and last for approximately 2 hours. Please meet at the Coach House, High Ashurst Outdoor Education Centre, off Headley Lane, Mickleham, Dorking, RH5 6DQ. There is limited parking outside the Coach House.
If you would like to have a go at digging, it is at your own risk. Please wear old clothing, appropriate to the weather conditions. All equipment provided.
This event is free but spaces are limited. To book a place contact: Abby Guinness, Community Archaeologist, 01483 518772, abby.guinness@surreycc.gov.uk
Surrey History Centre Heritage Open Day
Saturday 12 September at Surrey History Centre
Behind the scenes tours
Surrey History Centre will be providing two behind the scenes tours at 10.30 am and 2pm. Tours take an hour and a half and must be booked in advance.
To book please call 01483 518737.
Book stall - There will be a second hand book stall of local history books and items throughout the day.
Before The Mugshot: Mid-Victorian Asylum Photography
Thursday 17 September 2009, 7.30pm at Surrey History Centre
An evening talk by Colin Gale and Caroline Smith of Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum focusing on the extraordinary photographs taken by Henry Hering in the late 1850s of patients at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark. The evening will explore the use to which photography was put in the development of Victorian mental health treatment at hospitals such as Bethlem (as well as Springfield in Surrey) and attempt to place asylum photography in the context of mainstream photographic portraiture.
Tickets £3. There are a limited number of places. To book telephone: 01483 518737
First and Second Steps in Old Handwriting
Saturday 19 September at the Surrey History Centre
Join Surrey Heritage archivists as they take you through the first steps of reading Tudor and Stuart handwriting with the chance to practice reading from copies of items held in the archive.
Beginners session - 10.30am -12.30pm
Intermediate session - 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Tickets cost £5 per session. Places are limited.
To book please ring 01483 518737.
The Lady and the Poet. John Donne and Anne More at Loseley Park.
Saturday 7 November 2009, 2.30pm at Surrey History Centre
A talk and book signing by Maeve Haran
The Lady and the Poet is the love story of the poet John Donne and his sweetheart Anne More. Theirs was a love that flourished against all the odds, as they faced vehement opposition from his patrons and from her family. The result was a marriage of minds and of “true plain hearts”.
Tickets £3.00. Telephone 01483 518737 to book.
And Pray, Sir, Who is Bach?
Thursday 19 November 2009 7.30pm at Surrey History Centre
An evening of piano duet music and readings from the time of Dr Samuel Johnson performed by Penelope Cave and Helena Brown, with a Broadwood square piano of 1795. Tickets: £10.00 to include a glass of wine.
To book please call 01483 519737
Heritage mental health events 2009
Time out of Mind Conference
This conference will be of interest to curators, archivists, specialist librarians, records managers, archaeologists, historians, mental health professionals, artists and other users of the heritage of mental health.
At Surrey History Centre on Friday 16 October 10.00am - 4.00pm
Please click the link for further information about this event.
Who do you think you are?
On Saturday 31st October volunteers from Epsom and Ewell Local and Family History Centre will answer family history queries in the centre at Ewell Library. Experts from Surrey History Centre will at the same time be holding a special advice session for family historians interested in sources for mental health history held at Surrey History Centre. More details will be coming later.
Peer Productions Play
A play dealing with the stigma associated with mental health.
More details will be coming later.
