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Presenting the DRA Evening Lecture Programme 2014
6th February 2014
‘The Eddystone Lighthouses’
Adam Hart-Davis, Photographer, writer, and broadcaster
6th March 2014
‘A Visual History of Devon's Gardens, 1200 to 1900’
Dr Todd Gray, Historian and Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University
3rd April 2014
‘Breton Craftsmen in Early Tudor Devon’
John Allan, Archaeologist
1st May 2014
‘Luxury Statements: Decorative Plasterwork in Devon, c.1500-1780’
Dr Theresa Oakley, Consultant Archaeologist at DRA
5th June 2014
‘Plymouth: The Three Town Amalgamation’
Graham Naylor, Senior Librarian Plymouth Central Library
3rd July 2014
‘Devon in the 1st World War’
Richard Batten, University of Exeter
7th August 2014
‘Dartmoor’s Sett Makers’ Bankers’
Simon Dell, Moorland Guide
4th September 2014
‘The Lees Cottage story: A House That Disappeared’
Philippe Planel, former Heritage Project Officer for East Devon AONB
2nd October 2014
‘Heart of Oak: A Community Project to Restore a Tudor Screen’
Felicity Cole, Curator, Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum
6th November 2014
‘Industrial Archaeology of the Devon Moors’
Dr Mick Atkinson, Industrial Historian
4th December 2014
‘Forced into Exile? Three Devon Estates in the 1860s’
Jeremy Pearson, Curator National Trust South West
All lectures are held at the DRA in the grounds of Shilstone House near Modbury at 7pm. Doors open at 6:30pm for refreshments. Please do not arrive at Shilstone before this time.
Admission £5 per person
See www.devonruralarchive.com for further details and directions.