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Programme of Films, Talks and Events May - August 2013

Tuesday, 28 th – 10.00 – 12.00 Friday, 31 st May Half Term Family Workshops Art and craft activities inspired by the current exhibition. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information or visit www.museumofrichmond.com

Friday, 7 th June 14.00 Richmond upon Thames Gardens Festival: Richmond Gardeners’ Question Time From planting bee-friendly gardens to managing allotments, qualified horticulturalist, garden designer and award winning food grower, Maria Casey, will be responding to all of your gardening conundrums.

All attendees are asked to submit their questions at least 48 hours in advance. Free, ticket required. £2 donation welcomed on the day.

Saturday, 15 th June 14.00 Living and Dying in the 19 th Century: Workhouse and Madhouse – another side of London Life

The Victorians developed institutional living for vulnerable

people to an almost industrial scale. Workhouses for the poor and asylums for the mentally ill were, by modern standards, bleak and sometimes frightening places. However, by 1947 many of these buildings formed part of the first NHS provision. During his talk, historian Alan Field will focus on Richmond and the surrounding area. Free, ticket required, £2 donation welcomed.

Wednesday, 19 th June 18.00 Living and Dying in the 19 th Century: Ave Atque Vale: The Influence of Antiquity on Victorian Cemetaries

Debbie Challis considers how ideas and styles from the

ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian periods influenced graveyards and monuments in London during the mid nineteenth century. From emblems on graves to the impact of archaeological discoveries, this talk explores examples from cemeteries including Abney Park, Nunhead, Kensal Green, West Norwood and Highgate.

Dr Debbie Challis is Audience Development Officer at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, and has programmed popular public walks around cemeteries with

Cathie Bryan for a number of years. Author of numerous publications, her latest book is The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie. Free, ticket required. £2 donation welcomed on the day.

Friday, 21 st June 11.00 – 12.00 The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by: Living and Dying in the 19 th Century With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem. Free, no ticket required

Wednesday, 26 th June 18.00 Living and Dying in the 19 th Century Film Season: Jane Eyre (1943; certificate PG); (97 mins approx) The 1943 adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte. After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. Starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required.

Wednesday, 24 th July 19.30 Richmond Society Summer Walk: Living and Dying in 19 th Century Richmond A guided walk led by John Govett and Valerie Boyes through the Queens Road Estate area of the Town focussing on the Richmond Old Cemetery in Grove Road and the lives of those

buried there. £2 donation welcomed on the day. Starting at 7.30pm from the Upper Concourse of Richmond Station and finishing at about 9.00pm with an adjournment to a local pub.

Thursday, 25 th July 12.00 – 15.00 Festival of British Archaeology Event: Excavating Richmond – a Local Archaeology Day Discover some of the fascinating archaeology found in Richmond and bring along your finds for identification. With experts from the Richmond Archaeological Society. Free.

Saturday, 27 th July 11.00 – 15.00 Festival of British Archaeology Event: Roman Discovery Day Explore Roman archaeology with Dr Pamela Greenwood during this fascinating and free drop in day. Fun for all ages with Roman artefacts, replica costumes and games. Free.

Wednesday, 31 st July 18.00 Living and Dying in the 19 th Century Film Season: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936; certificate PG); (76 mins approx) Filmed on location on Fleet Street and at Shepperton Studios, a Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who murdered many customers for their money. With Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required.

Wednesday, 7th August 11.00 – 12.00 The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by: Gardens With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem. Free, no ticket required

Friday, 9 th August 14.00 Living and Dying: ‘The bringing home of bell and burial’: Funerals in Tudor and Stuart England This talk follows the dying person from his or her deathbed, through the funeral ritual itself to the eating and drinking that followed the burial. In this period, before the development of professional undertakers, death was largely a domestic and parish affair. The talk will cover the funerals given to different social classes, from the poorest people to royalty.

Clare Gittings is Learning Manager at the National Portrait Gallery and Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Among her publications are Death Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England (1984) and Death in England: An Illustrated History (1999). She has a particular interest in visual sources for studying the history of death in the early modern period. Free, ticket required. £2 donation welcomed on the day.

Tuesday, 13 th August 14.00 – 16.00 Tombstone Trail Led by Johanna Coombes and Jane Short of the Richmond Heritage Guides, explore the tranquil setting of and discover a hidden haven of interesting graves and monuments. Meet at Sheen Road (Kings Ride Gate) Richmond Cemetery Entrance (TW10 5BJ). Ticket required. £6 Supporters/ £8 non-Supporters.

Wednesday, 18.00 28 th August Living and Dying in the 19 th Century Film Season: Great Expectations (1946; certificate PG); (118 mins approx) David Lean’s classic adaptation of the Dickens novel, starring John Mills, Martita Hunt and Valerie Hobson. A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required.

Booking Information for Events

Event tickets are available by post or collection from the Museum of Richmond, Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, TW9 1TP. Tel: 020 8332 1141

Please complete the attached booking form overleaf and return it to the Museum with a stamped addressed envelope.

For more information on any of the events, please call Phillippa Heath on 020 8332 1141 Booking Form

Date Event Number of tickets Total Cost required (please (if applicable) specify if Museum Supporter) Friday, 7 th Richmond upon Thames Gardens Festival : June Richmond Gardeners’ Question Time (ticket required, £2 donation welcomed on the day) Saturday, Exhibition Talk: 15 th June Workhouse and Madhouse – another side of London Life (ticket required, £2 donation welcomed on the day) Wednesday, Exhibition Talk: 19 th June Ave Atque Vale: The Influence of Antiquity on Victorian Cemetaries (ticket required, £2 donation welcomed on the day) Wednesday, Film Season: 26 th June Jane Eyre (ticket required, £3 donation welcomed) Wednesday, Film Season: 31 st July Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (ticket required, £3 donation welcomed) Friday, 9 th Exhibition Talk: August ‘The Bringing home of Bell and Burial’: Funerals in Tudor and Stuart England (ticket required, £2 donation welcomed on the day) Tuesday, Walk : 13 th August Tombstone Trail (ticket required. £6 Museum Supporters/ £8 non- supporters) Wednesday, Film Season: 28 th August Great Expectations (ticket required, £3 donation welcomed) Grand Total Cost (if applicable)

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