Learning at Shropshire
Museums and Archives
Adult Education Courses
October 2014 – April 2015
Shrewsbury
Ludlow Museum
Museum & Art Resource Centre
Gallery
Shropshire
Archives
Course Calendar 2014/15
Course
Start Date
Time
No. of Sessions
Reading Roman Inscriptions
Friday 31st October
10.30am - 12.30pm
1
Natural History Drawing - Shells
Friday 7th November
10am - 12.30pm
1
What did your Ancestors do in WWI?
Saturday 8th November
10am - 4pm
1
Roman Graffiti
Friday 28th November
10.30am - 12.30pm
1
Exposed – Creative Art Workshop
Wednesday 10th December
10.30am - 2.30pm
1
A History of Dress
Monday 5th January
10.30am - 12.30pm
6
For King or Parliament? Civil War in
Shropshire and the Welsh Marches
1642-1651
Monday 5th January
1.30pm - 3.30pm
6
Re:collect Curiosity Exhibition –
Sculpture Course
Friday 9th January
10.30am - 1.30pm
3
Life Drawing
Saturday 10th January
10.30am - 12.30pm
6
Literary Visitors to Shropshire
Monday 12th January
2pm - 3.30pm
1
Creative Writing
Wednesday 14th January
10am - 12 noon
(first and last sessions
9.30am - 12 noon)
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Reading Roman Tombstones
Friday 30th January
10.30am - 12.30pm
1
A Thousand Years of Shirt Making
Wednesday 11th February
10.30am - 4pm
1
Three Shropshire Women Writers
Monday 16th February
2pm - 3.30pm
1
Reading Roman Inscriptions
Friday 20th February
10.30am - 12.30pm
1
Secret Egypt
Monday 2nd March
10.30am - 12.30pm
6
Palaeography – How to read
old writing
Tuesday 3rd March
2pm - 4pm
6
Natural History Drawing - Birds
Friday 6th March
1pm - 3.30pm
1
How to Pleat a Mantua –
18thC dresses explained
Wednesday 11th March
10.30am - 4pm
1
Roman Graffiti
Friday 27th March
10.30am - 12.30pm
1
Re-Vamp!
Monday 13th April
10.30am - 12.30pm
6
Dressmaking with Linen &
Cotton 1770-1830
Wednesday 15th April
10.30am - 4pm
1
Natural History Drawing - Shells
Friday 17th April
10am - 12.30pm
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SM&AG = Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
LMRC = Ludlow Museum Resource Centre
Tutor
Fee
Location
Book
Margaret Thorpe £14
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Angela Gladwell
£15
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Heather Butler
£30
Gateway & Shropshire Archives
The Gateway 01743 355159
Margaret Thorpe £14
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Maggie Allmark &
£25
Fran Yarroll
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Sarah Thursfield
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Jonathan Worton £65
SM&AG and Shropshire Archives
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Elizabeth Turner
£35
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Mark Warner
£57
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Gordon Dickins
£3.50
Shropshire Archives
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Simon Fletcher
£63 (free to those
in receipt of means SM&AG
tested benefits
£60
WEA Tel: 01952 614451
Email: [email protected]
Margaret Thorpe £14
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Sarah Thursfield
£30
LMRC
Tel: 01584 813665
Email: [email protected]
Gordon Dickins
£3.50
Shropshire Archives
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Margaret Thorpe £14
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Linda Martin
£65
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Helen Hayes
£37
Shropshire Archives
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Angela Gladwell
£15
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Sarah Thursfield
£30
LMRC
Tel: 01584 813665
Email: [email protected]
Margaret Thorpe £14
SM&AG
The Gateway 01743 355159
Catherine
Crowther
£55
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Sarah Thursfield
£30
LMRC
Tel: 01584 813665
Email: [email protected]
Angela Gladwell
£15
SM&AG
[email protected]
01743 258884/258888
Payment for courses booked through Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives and Ludlow Museum & Resource Centre - Course places
must be paid for at the time of booking. Your place is not secure unless paid for in full. If you have to cancel your booking, please contact the
point of booking as soon as possible and confirm in writing or by email. If you cancel your booking less than four weeks before the course start
date, fees paid will not be refunded unless the course was full and your place can be re-sold.
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History & General Interest
Reading Roman Tombstones
The mysteries of Roman tombstones are revealed in
this short course designed to introduce participants to
the fascinating stories hidden within the inscriptions. No
knowledge of Latin is necessary; all will be explained
during the morning. You will visit and explore the Roman
collections in Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery’s Roman
Gallery to practise your new skills.
When: Friday 30th January
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Margaret Thorpe
Cost: £14
Book: The Gateway Education & Arts Centre,
Tel: 01743 355159
Reading Roman Inscriptions
If you would like to read and understand Latin inscriptions,
experienced Latin scholar and course tutor Margaret
Thorpe will show you how. Shrewsbury Museum & Art
Gallery’s Roman Gallery is home to the original inscription
which was placed over the forum entrance at Wroxeter
Roman City and is one of the finest Roman inscriptions in
Britain. Participants will explore this inscription and many
more. No experience of reading Latin is necessary.
When: Friday 31st October & 20th February
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Margaret Thorpe
Cost: £14
Book: The Gateway Education & Arts Centre,
Tel: 01743 355159
Roman Graffiti
When: Friday 28th November & 27th March
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Margaret Thorpe
Cost: £14
Book: The Gateway Education & Art Centre,
Tel: 01743 355159
‘Nero was ere’! What kind of things did the Romans
write on their walls? Everything from lovers’ messages
to election slogans. Find out more with tutor Margaret
Thorpe in this course designed to reveal the hidden
details of Roman life.
For King or Parliament? Civil War in Shropshire and the Welsh Marches 1642-1651
School history lessons have probably left us with an
impression of the English Civil Wars: of Cavaliers and
Roundheads, of King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.
But what were these turbulent years - a pivotal period
in British history - really like? In reality the Civil Wars
were largely contested at county and regional level, and
this new series of six classes will explore the conflict in
Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. The course will
allow the examination of artefacts from the collection of
Shropshire Museums Service and Shropshire Archives and
includes one field trip in and around Shrewsbury (involving
on-street walking only).
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When: Monday 5th January for six weeks
Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery and
Shropshire Archives
Tutor: Jonathan Worton
Cost: £65 including refreshments
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
Secret Egypt
This six week course will give participants an opportunity
to explore the treasures of the touring Secret Egypt
exhibition, on display at Shrewsbury Museum & Art
Gallery between 24th January and 26th April 2015.
Course themes will include: The meaning and use of
the Shabti box, Canopic jars and mummification, the
portrayal of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramses II in
art and Egyptian mythology and the Book of the Dead.
Teaching by course Tutor Linda Martin will take place in
the museum’s Secret Egypt exhibition and in the Walker
Education Suite.
When: Monday 2nd March for six weeks
(break for Easter holidays)
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Linda Martin
Cost: £65
Book: The Gateway Education & Art Centre,
Tel: 01743 355159
A History of Dress
This six week course examines the evolution of dress
from unisex tunics via corsets and crinolines to jeans.
Course themes include: Fine Silks and Surface Details.
Linens, The Whalebone Years, King Cotton and Sewing
machines and Superstores. Tutor and heritage seamstress
Sarah Thursfield allows course participants to access
original garments stored in the museums costume
collection and not currently on display.
When: Monday 5th January for six weeks
(break for February half-term holiday)
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Sarah Thursfield
Cost: £60 including refreshments
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
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Creative Techniques
Creative Writing - in partnership with the WEA
This course is designed to help you to develop an
interest in creative writing and give you more skills and
ideas to develop your work through interaction with the
collections and themes at Shrewsbury Museum and Art
Gallery. You should gain a good idea of ways to approach
biography / autobiography, poetry, the short story, the
novel and research. You will need to bring a notebook
and pen, or laptop if you prefer. Please note this course is
open to adults of 19+ only.
When: Wednesday 14 January for ten weeks
(no class on 18th February)
Time: 10am -12 noon
(9.30am -12 noon first and last sessions)
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Simon Fletcher
Cost: £63 (free to those in receipt of means tested
benefits)
Book: WEA Tel: 01952 614451
Email: [email protected]
Re-Vamp!
Vamp up your vintage in our practical course designed
to bring out the seamstress in you. Breathe new life into
long forgotten outfits and recycle old fabric to create
wonderful, wearable items and beautiful creations for the
home. You will need to bring a sewing machine, scissors,
needles, thread, fabric, old clothes and any trims and
buttons you wish to work with. Suitable for complete
beginners or the more experienced.
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When: Monday 13th April for six weeks
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Catherine Crowther
Cost: £55 including refreshments
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums and Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
Historical Dress-Making Skills - one-day practical classes
Each of these study days is a stand-alone event offering a detailed look at the construction techniques of one type
of garment, using original examples together with replicas and samples. They offer a close-up view for the historian
and an opportunity to try out the key methods for the practically inclined. Please bring your own sewing kit, fabrics
will be supplied. You will take away your own working sample.
When: Wednesday 11th February
A thousand years of shirt making
Where: Ludlow Museum Resource Centre
Underneath the successive shapes fashionable of
outerwear, the economical cut and sturdy sewing of the
Time: 10.30am - 4pm
humble shirt remained remarkably consistent. Learn more
Tutor: Sarah Thursfield
about this underrated garment and its evolution, from the
Cost: £30 including refreshments
Saxon seamstress to the sewing machine.
Book: Tel: 01584 813665
Email: [email protected]
When: Wednesday 11th March
How to pleat a mantua - eighteenth-century
dresses explained
Where: Ludlow Museum Resource Centre
The gowns of this period are often dismissed as ‘crudely Time: 10.30am - 4pm
sewn’ but the draping and pleating of magnificent silks into Tutor: Sarah Thursfield
stylish dresses was a new and dynamic technique which
brought its own challenges. Look at original examples and Cost: £30 including refreshments
pleat your own models to understand how the mantua- Book: Tel: 01584 813665
Email: [email protected]
makers responded to them.
When: Wednesday 15th April
Dressmaking with linen and cotton, 1770-1830
Where: Ludlow Museum Resource Centre
The new fabrics of the industrial revolution prompted
the mantua-maker to learn from the seamstress how to
Time: 10.30am - 4pm
make fine, delicate garments with increasingly elaborate
Tutor: Sarah Thursfield
detailing. Try out fine pleating, piping and gathering and
Cost: £30 including refreshments
observe how the foundations of Victorian dressmaking
Book: Tel: 01584 813665
were laid.
Email: [email protected]
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Art & Sculpture
Natural History Drawing - Birds & Shells
Two practical sessions in learning to draw by working
from observation. Classes are suitable for all abilities from
beginners to the more experienced including those who
are out of practice and are keen to improve their skills by
working from individual specimens in the natural history
collection. Course participants will benefit from one to
one tuition with Angela Gladwell, a professional artist and
experienced adult tutor.
You may enrol for one or both of the sessions. Please
bring your own paper and art material and yes….a ruler,
although it’s not for drawing straight lines!
When: Birds: Friday 6th March
Shells: Friday 7th November &
Friday 17th April
Time: Birds: 1pm - 3.30pm
Shells: 10am - 12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Angela Gladwell
Cost: £15 per session
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
Life Drawing
Would you like to try life-drawing or continue to develop
your own work? Join our new life-drawing sessions
with experienced artist Mark Warner, Head of Art at
Shrewsbury High School. All abilities welcome.
A1 drawing boards and easels provided. Please bring your
own paper and art materials.
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When: Saturday 10th January for six weeks
Time: 10.30am -12.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Mark Warner
Cost: £57 including refreshments
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
Exposed - Creative Art Workshop
This workshop gives participants an opportunity to
explore the museum’s special exhibition Exposed - the
body in art from Durer to Freud. The morning will be
spent investigating the skeleton and exploring the ways
in which artists have applied this understanding to their
own interpretation of the human form. Participants
will then spend the afternoon in the museum’s Walker
Education Suite, working up sketches made during the
morning session and creating mono print designs to take
away. Delivered by a practising artist and an Osteologist,
this day course aims to encourage a detailed study of
the magnificent works of art showcased as part of the
Exposed exhibition and is suitable for both novice and
more experienced artists. Materials provided.
When: Wednesday 10th December
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutors: Maggie Allmark & Fran Yarroll
Cost: £25
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
Re:collect Curiosity Exhibition - Sculpture Course
Curiosity is the new contemporary art exhibition by
Shropshire artists group “re:collect” at Shrewsbury
Museum & Art Gallery from Oct 14th. One of the
artworks on display will be an interactive Cabinet of
Curiosities containing miniature artworks, videos and
artefacts. Re:collect artist Elizabeth Turner is offering a 3
half-day sculpture course. Sessions will include an artist-led
tour of the re:collect Curiosity exhibition at Shrewsbury
Museum & Art Gallery, with time to explore initial ideas
through sketch drawings. Participants will then be able to
develop their ideas in 3D using clay and found objects/
assemblage and learn basic casting and construction
techniques to create their own sculpture to take home.
No sculpting experience is required and the course will be
fun, informal and a chance to try out making things in 3D.
All you will need to bring is an apron!
When: Friday 9th January for three weeks
Time: 10.30am - 1.30pm
Where: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Tutor: Elizabeth Turner
Cost: £35
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
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Family History & Research Skills
Palaeography - How to read old writing
When: Tuesday 3rd March for six weeks
(break for Easter holidays)
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Where: Shropshire Archives
Tutor: Helen Hayes
Cost: £37
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
Email: [email protected]
This six week course covers secretary, italic and mixed
hands from the 16th-18th centuries, and 19th century
formal and informal writing. Course tutor Helen Hayes
uses varied documents including wills and inventories,
parish registers, deeds, private letters and borough
account books from Shropshire and further afield. This
course is suitable for those with no previous experience
of reading old documents but will also equip those
experienced in local and family history research to
understand their own older documents.
Talks with Gordon Dickins
Gordon Dickins is the author of “An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire” (1987) and a number of photographic
books on the county. He has a longstanding interest in writers and places and a passion for the Shropshire
landscape.
When: Monday 12th January
Literary Visitors to Shropshire
Shropshire has sometimes been depicted as the epitome Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
of rural isolation. But the county has never been a
Where: Shropshire Archives
backwater and can boast an impressive list of literary
Cost: £3.50
figures among its visitors including Dickens, E.M. Forster,
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
D.H. Lawrence and many others. The talk will include
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
readings from some of their creative works and journals.
Email: [email protected]
When: Monday 16th February
Three Shropshire Women Writers
Mary Webb, Edith Pargeter and Barbara Pym were born Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
and brought up in Shropshire. The landscape figures large Where: Shropshire Archives
in the novels of Webb and Pargeter, while in those of
Cost: £3.50
Barbara Pym her Oswestry upbringing is less immediately
Book: Learning at Shropshire Museums & Archives
obvious but just as important. The talk is intended as an
Tel: 01743 258884/258888
introduction to three writers who have, at times, been
Email: [email protected]
undeservedly overlooked.
What did your Ancestors do in The First World War?
When: Saturday 8th November
Time: 10am - 4pm
Where: The Gateway & Shropshire Archives
Tutor: Heather Butler
Cost: £30
Book: The Gateway Education & Art Centre,
Tel: 01743 355159
This short day course will help you to find out how to
trace your ancestors who served in the First World War.
Discover how to explore military records and archive
sources which are not only available online but at the
National Archives in Kew and your local record and
archive office. Examine service and pension records,
battalion war diaries, medal index cards, personal
accounts, letters and diaries.
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Friends of Shrewsbury
Museum and Art Gallery
Talks Series 2014/15
Wednesday 12th November 2014, 2.30pm
Exhibition Talk
Pamela Schilderman, artist and creator of
The Harold Thomas Collection
Can deception in art ever be justified?
What impact does it have on value and authenticity?
Is it all just a matter of perception?
How far does information manipulate the way we see
art?
Saturday 22 November 2014, 2.30pm
Gallery Talk
William Champion, Editor of the 6th volume of the
Victoria County History, A History of Shropshire (2014)
The townsmen “came thick and threefold”:
the decline of communal action and society in
Shrewsbury, 1500-1750
Tuesday 20 January 2015, 2.30pm
Special Exhibition Talk
Christopher Kirby, Curator of the Secret Egypt Exhibition
and Head of Collections and Learning at Culture
Coventry
Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth from Myth
Sunday 15 February 2015, 2.30pm, Theatre
Severn
Darwin Memorial Lecture
Dr Gregory Radick, Professor of the History and
Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
Author, The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal
Language (2007) and The Cambridge Companion to
Darwin
(2nd ed. 2009)
A ‘brilliant blunder’? Darwin and Mendel revisited
Sunday 22nd February 2015, 2.30pm
Theme Talk
Jonathan Worton holds an MA in military history. He is
currently completing his Doctoral thesis on the Civil War
in Shropshire
‘A Great Blow to the King’: How did the
Roundheads capture Shrewsbury in 1645?
Sunday 15 March 2015, 2.30pm
Gallery Talk
Dr Roger White, Academic Director, Ironbridge
International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of
Birmingham
Reconstructing Roman Lives: using the museum’s
collections
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 2.30pm
Theme Talk
Harriet Devlin, Ironbridge International Institute for
Cultural Heritage
The Philanthropic Landscape of Coalbrookedale
Thursday, 7 May 2015, 4pm
Theme Talk
Douglas Grounds
Author, Son and Servant of Shropshire (2009)
Son and Servant of Shropshire: The Life of
Archdeacon Joseph (Plymley) Corbett 1759 - 1838
PLEASE NOTE
Entry will by ticket, which will be available from the
museum Visitor Information Centre. Tickets will be free
to Friends of the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
and will cost £3 for non-members. Talks will usually take
place in The Music Hall. The Darwin Memorial Lecture
will take place in Theatre Severn and tickets should be
purchased through the Theatre Box Office.
Friends of Shropshire Archives Talks Series 2015
Saturday 28th February 2015
Saturday 18th April 2015
Volunteering Conference - Free admission
Sylvia Watts Day
A day to bring together stories, research and discoveries made A programme of talks, walks and displays celebrating
during the Volunteering for Shropshire’s Heritage Project.
the life and historical interests of Dr Sylvia Watts.
Walker Theatre, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury.
10am - 4pm Shifnal Village Hall
For further details please contact Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury, SY1 2AQ.
Tel: 01743 255350 Email: [email protected]
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