The Kings of Wessex Remembered – An exhibition and Lecture series marking the Centenary of the ‘Rediscovery’ of King Æthelbert of Wessex

Exhibition by Francis Brown, PhD student, Exeter University – do please visit the Abbey to look at the exhibition (free entry).

To accompany the exhibition, the following talks will take place in the Abbey:

Sunday 1 June at 8.00 pm: Talk by Tim Tatton-Brown (cathedrals archaeologist) on The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral, Monastery and City at Sherborne: A Reassessment.

Tuesday 3 June at 7.30 pm: Talk by Professor Barbara Yorke (University of Winchester), entitled ‘Æthelbald, Æthelbert, and Ælfred: Power and Politics in the Mid-Ninth Century.

Wednesday 4 June at 12 noon: Talk by Francis Brown (University of Exeter), entitled ‘A Skeleton in the Closet: The ‘Rediscovery’ of King Ethelbert of Wessex’ in 1925.

If you wish to sign up to for any of the talks (free admission), please call the Parish Office on 01935 713777.