{"id":4297,"date":"2015-06-17T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolverhamptonlabour.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:09:15","slug":"local-history-under-the-spotlight-in-free-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolverhamptonlabour.com\/news\/local-history-under-the-spotlight-in-free-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Local history under the spotlight in free talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Accidents in the 19th<\/sup> century, Medieval Wolverhampton and Georgian enamelling will be the subject of talks exploring different facets of local history next month.<\/p>\n Wolverhampton City Council’s Arts and Museums Service regularly organises local history talks on a wide variety of topics, including three in July.<\/p>\n Helen Steatham and craftsmaker John Grayson will be talking about their collaboration on the Georgian Enamels, A New Narrative exhibition, currently on display at Bantock House Museum in Maker and Curator: in Conversation. The discussion will reveal how the public were key to the reinterpretation of old enamel fragments, and how this led to the creation of new topical, satirical objects.<\/p>\n Maker and Curator: in Conversation takes place in Bantock House Museum\u2019s Performance Space from 12.30pm\u20131.30pm on Tuesday 7 July, 2015.<\/p>\n There will be another opportunity to hear Mike Shaw\u2019s fascinating presentation of A Tale of Three Towns – Medieval Wolverhampton, Walsall and Willenhall, this time at Wolverhampton City Archives on Wednesday 8 July from 5pm-6pm.<\/p>\n And local historian Jane Smith concludes July\u2019s programme with her talk on Nineteenth Century Accidents which takes place at Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Friday 17 July from 2pm-3pm.<\/p>\n