The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series is a free talk by Professor Angus Winchester on 'Vikings, Statesmen and Herdwicks: history & myth in the Lake District'. The talk will take place on Tue 5 May at our Ambleside campus. Further details here: https://t.co/RR1DHVWU2t
The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a free talk by @whitbyabi on Anne Lister and her 1824 tour of the Lake District. The talk will take place on Tue 14 April (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. For further details & to book a place see https://t.co/hL874R9Q6W
In October of 1892 while on holiday with her family in Birnam, Scotland- Beatrix Potter meets with Charles McIntosh, ‘The Perthshire Naturalist,’ to discuss her paintings of fungi and mosses. He promises to send specimens of fungi to London.
https://t.co/xzYIDfpbeD
Armitt Talk Series:
A Natural Education: Children’s Literature and the Evolving Cultural Landscape of the Lake District with @DrPennyBradshaw
£6
2-3:30
30th September
https://t.co/WWj7hXnlu7
Happy May Day!
Our Object of the Month is this photograph of the May Queen and her court for 1945, celebrating the end of the Second World War that year.
This year it will be 80 years since VE Day and the end of the Second World War. Learn more here at The Armitt.
The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a free talk on the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Lake District. The talk will take place at 6.30pm on Tuesday 4 February at our Ambleside campus. For further details and to book a place see: https://t.co/OvnclnnwBz