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Course Programme Summer 2016

Hampton Court: 500 Years: Dr Jonathan Foyle Saturday 18 June The Bordeaux Style – Taste, Tradition and History: John Brooks Thursday 21 July Witch Wicca, Wisewoman – A History of Witchcraft: Dr Maureen James Saturday 23 July

City College Peterborough, Brook Street, Peterborough PE1 1TU Telephone: (01733) 761361 www.citycollegepeterborough.ac.uk [email protected]

Follow us on: Information correct at the time of going to press May 2016. No refund applies to these programmes unless the course is cancelled by the College.

City College is offering some new and exciting talks, presented by local and national speakers which are being held in historic locations across Peterborough and its surrounding areas.

Dr Jonathan Foyle took his PhD on Wolsey’s Hampton Court. He is a former buildings curator of Hampton Court and

Hampton Court: 500 Years When:

Saturday 18 June 2016

Time:

10am–1pm

Speaker:

Dr Jonathan Foyle

presenter of ‘Climbing Great Buildings’ and ‘Henry VIII:

Where:

Becket Chapel, Minster Precincts, Peterborough Cathedral

Patron or Plunderer?’

Fee:

£55 (including Ploughman’s Lunch and refreshments)

Chief Executive of World Monuments Fund Britain. Author of three books on English cathedrals and a regular writer for the FT Weekend, he is most familiar as a BBC broadcaster, the

Located just inside the Norman Arch into the Cathedral

Hampton Court is best known as the

of lost interiors, and shows how much

Precincts, the Becket Chapel building is the fourteenth century

main surviving palace of Henry VIII

of the credit for Hampton Court was

chancel of a former chapel, originally built by Abbot Benedict

(1509-47). But how much of Hampton

due to the ambitious cardinal before

c.1180, which housed relics associated with St. Thomas Becket.

Court did he really create? The king

his reputation was shattered and

Following the dissolution of Peterborough Abbey, the Chapel became the new

had lost the principal medieval royal

his achievements defaced by the

King’s School in 1541, where the school remained until 1885.

seat of Westminster to a fire in 1512,

infamous king he had served. What did

and thirteen years later he adopted

the king build, and why? And what’s

Cardinal Wolsey’s Hampton Court,

left of it? We share the wonderment of

which had been planned anew in

visitors who describe the lost interiors

1515. This talk explains the European

during the last years of Elizabeth I,

cultural background to the king’s

before the Tudor palace was half

accession and Wolsey’s magnificent

pulled down and rebuilt.

The room includes a wonderful stained glass window looking out across to the Cathedral’s West Front, giving it a light, bright and tranquil feel.

creation. It presents reconstructions

To book your place(s) call (01733) 761361, visit www.citycollegepeterborough.ac.uk, email: [email protected] or call into the College in Brook Street.

years. He was a Branch Manager with retail chain Victoria Wine

The Bordeaux Style – Taste, Tradition and History

and a wine Scholarship winner in 1990. John taught on behalf

When:

Thursday 21 July 2016

of the Wine & Spirit Trust for several years. He also joined

Time:

6–9pm

Waitrose in 2012, where there is no shortage of wine available

Speaker:

John Brooks

for his research.

Where:

The Bell Inn, Great North Road, Stilton, Peterborough PE7 3ER

Fee:

£55 (including wine tasters and gourmet buffet)

John Brooks qualified as a teacher in further & adult education in 1992, having been active in the Wine Trade for 7

The Inn, and the village itself, thrived in an age when the High

This talk will explain and celebrate a

there are considerable differences

Street and North Street were part of the Great North Road,

very successful style of winemaking,

of grape proportions and flavours

formerly the famous Roman road called Ermine Street. The

Bordeaux. So successful in fact that

to the various districts of Bordeaux.

Coaching Era, from the 1630s to the 1840s, was the period of the

it has travelled abroad to countries

Take a look further into what makes

Inn’s prosperity. Coaches brought people and, significantly, mail. When Stilton was

like South Africa, where similar

this unique style and the history and

a major posting stage, it supported as many as 14 public houses and inns.

styles can now be found. It is usually

tradition behind it and get your taste

a blend of grape varieties although

buds tingling with wine tasting.

The Bell Inn dates back to 1500 (though its origins could be even earlier, as there is a record of a local innkeeper in 1437). From 1500 to 1515 Edward Tebald and his wife Alice owned the Bell. We know that their daughter Margaret and her husband William Redehede sued her parent’s tenant for possession, but little else from those early days.


and a multi-disciplined approach to the past, Maureen James

Witch, Wicca, Wisewoman – A History of Witchcraft

provides talks that are not just entertaining and informative

When:

Saturday 23 July 2016

but also thought-provoking. In 2015 she received an award from

Time:

10am–1pm

the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History for her book

Speaker:

Dr Maureen James

‘Cambridgeshire Folk Tales’. More information can be found on

Where:

Holmewood Hall, Church Street, Holme, Peterborough PE7 3BZ

Fee:

£55 (including conference lunch and refreshments)

Dr Maureen James has an interest in the more bizarre and eccentric of British rural customs, traditions and beliefs,

her website www.tellinghistory.co.uk

Holmewood Hall sits on the “Gateway to the Fens”.

Dr Maureen James presents an

the foundation of modern Wicca.

The present day Hall was built for the distinguished Wells family, who inherited the

illustrated talk outlining the changing

This talk will also briefly consider the

manor of Holme in 1752. Holmewood Hall was bought by British Sugar in 1951 and

attitude to people who were

role of superstition, the position of

became an agricultural research and development base for the company before being

called ‘witches’ from the medieval

cunning-folk and healers (including

fully restored to its former glory as a venue of true distinction.

acceptance of their role as healers

wise-men) in society, along with

or wise women, through their

the position of the older woman in

persecution by Matthew Hopkins to

England throughout the ages.

The Hall played a role during World War II but exact details of what went on during this time were sketchy. After fifty years under Official Secrets’ wraps, an interesting twist came to light. The Hall played a crucial role during the war. Between 1944 and 1945 the house and grounds at Holmewood Hall were used by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for packing airborne containers to be parachuted into occupied Europe.
