St Pancras Old Church Lecture Series 2014 Following the success of our 2013 lecture series, we have put together another set of lectures that celebrate the history of St Pancras Old Church and raise the funds necessary to preserve it. Please do join us! All lectures begin at 7pm at St Pancras Old Church. The bar will be open from 6.00pm. Tickets are £10 (£7.50 for students, with student card). They can be purchased: * By visiting our my donate page, selecting a lecture and donating the ticket price leaving your name and the number of tickets you require ( https://mydonate.bt/charities/stpancrasoldchurch) * By reserving via email (st.p.appeal@gmail) and paying on the door. * A small number of tickets will be available on the door. *27 March Dr Peter Foley* *Jeremy Collier RIP: Visionary Bishop and Infamous Outlaw* Jeremy Collier, Anglo-Catholic, Jacobite and outlaw was interred at Old St Pancras in 1726. Dr Foley will discuss Colliers fascinating history, from the invasion of William of Orange to the closing years of the reign of George I. *15 May Dr Alan Powers *FSA *Northern Adventure: Paul Nash in St Pancras* Nash rose to fame as a War Artist on the Western Front acting as a catalyst in the development of modern art and design. Alan Powers will discuss Nashs interpretation of the environment around St Pancras where he lived in the 30s. *6 June Prof Mark Philp * *William Godwin and Unconventional Women* The philosopher Godwin denounced the institution of marriage in his *Enquiry Concerning Political Justice*. His relationships with independent minded women and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft reveal the complexities of the radical literary culture of the 1790s and the limits of its unconventionality. *3 July Adrian Teal * * Chevaliers About Town* Cartoonist and author Adrian Teal introduces some remarkable 18th-century celebrities. The Chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini, appointed Surgeon-Dentist to the Prince of Wales, and the transvestite French spy known as the Chevalier dEon, buried in St Pancras Churchyard. *16 October Professor Janet Todd * *A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin* Professor Todd will be introducing Wollstonecraft as the most famous female political author of the revolutionary period; one of a group of literary women involved in political debates about society during the Enlightenment.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:06:51 +0000