Venue: The Apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3FD.
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Doors to the auditorium will open approximately 15 minutes before the lecture.
Monthly Talk – Boom and Bust in Medieval Lavenham
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby guest speaker, Jane Gosling The beautiful timber framed buildings for which Lavenham is so famous are the legacy of a thriving industry in cloth production. Its merchants made Lavenham one of the wealthiest towns in Tudor England. This talk … Continue reading
Monthly Talk – When Birds Sing
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby guest speaker, Saffron Summerfield A digitally illustrated, inspirational Talk with Saffron's own recordings of Bird Songs and Calls, photos and videos. Why, How and When do birds sing? Birdsong for well being research is suggesting it can have the … Continue reading
Monthly Talk – The role of the RAF Special Operations Executive in WW2
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby guest speaker, Andy Strange who works in broadcasting but also has a passionate interest in World War 2 history, especially in aviation history. Andy has given a number of talks on aviation history this year for the u3a Eastern … Continue reading
The Life and Work of Peter Carl Faberge – The World’s Greatest Goldsmith
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby Guest Speaker, John Benjamin This talk analyses the mercurial rise of Carl Fabergé in pre-revolution Russia who, by his late 30’s, was producing incomparable jewels and objets d’art for the Imperial Court and bourgeois Moscow and St Petersburg. The … Continue reading
Positive Ageing
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby Guest Speaker, Christine Webber Christine Webber believes passionately that we should strive to live as well as possible for as long as possible. She argues that the chronic older-age conditions so many of us suffer from can be avoided, … Continue reading
Remembering (and forgetting) St Edmund after the Reformation.
The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdomby Guest Speaker, Francis Young The cult of St Edmund did not disappear after the destruction of his shrine in Bury St Edmunds in November 1539, and St Edmund continued to be remembered (although at times rather hazily) in Suffolk … Continue reading