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Talks, Tours & Field Trips

Cultural Life

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Illustrated lectures:

  • Revolution in Fashion - Fashion in the Eighteenth Century
  • The Victorian Lady
  • Glamorous Fashion 1900-1940
  • Forties Fashion - World War II and Christian Dior's New Look
  • Symington of Market Harborough - The very foundation of fashion
Contact: Philip Warren, Keeper of Cultural Life, telephone: (01509 815514)

Working Life

  • Coaltracks - the Snibston Mineral Line and its Locomotives
  • Leicestershire Landscapes
  • Archaeology from the Air
  • Deserted Villages and Moated Sites
  • The Tudor Miners of Coleorton
  • Snibston Colliery and the Railway
Fred Hartley can give these talks at venues in Charnwood, Melton and the Vale of Belvoir.
Contact: Fred Hartley, Keeper of Working Life, telephone: (01509) 814583
  • A taste of Melton - The History of Stilton Cheese
Contact: Jenny Dancey, Keeper of Melton Museum, telephone: (01664) 569946

Religious Life

  • Church Monuments of Leicestershire
  • Sir Thomas Shirley and the Great Shirley Pedigree
Contact: Robin Jenkins, Keeper of Archives, telephone: (0116) 257 1080
Also see Talks, Tours & Field Trips for the following themes:

further information
Contact : Heritage Services
Telephone : 0116 305 6781
Fax : 0116 305 7370
E-mail : museums@leics.gov.uk
Last Updated:
2 December 2008
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