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The Immersive Chester Amphitheatre
Tag: Curious About Chester
Why write a biography of Alfred Mond? The Many Lives of Chester’s Forgotten MP
Who today knows of Alfred Mond? Once one of the world’s greatest tycoons, Mond has largely vanished from British public memory. Yet, elsewhere in the world the picture is very different. […]
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The Immersive Chester Amphitheatre
Take a step back in time and experience Chester’s virtual reality Roman amphitheatre! […]
The Immersive Chester Amphitheatre
Take a step back in time and experience Chester’s virtual reality Roman amphitheatre! […]
Let’s Talk History
Lace up your plimsoles and sprint through the last century of Cheshire’s sporting past with Let’s Talk, History. Using historic sound recordings from Cheshire Archives’ collections, this free audio trail tells 100 years of stories about the county’s competitive, recreational and, at times, amusing sports. […]
Scriveners, Priests, Feasts…and Huge Quantities of Objects – Medieval and Later Finds from Chester Amphitheatre
Linked to the Grosvenor Museum’s exhibition ‘Chester Amphitheatre – an 8000 year story’, join the museum’s Archaeological Officer for a talk on medieval and later finds from the 2004-6 excavations at the Amphitheatre. […]
The Ship that Chester Built: Exploring Chester’s links with slavery
In 1750, the St George was built in Chester’s shipyard. In three separate voyages, she carried a total of 662 enslaved people from Bonny on the coast of West Africa to plantations in the Caribbean. Join the project team for an interactive walking tour of some of the key sites in Chester connected with the history of transatlantic slavery. […]
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University of Chester Riverside Museum object handling
See objects from the Riverside Museum and meet its knowledgeable volunteers to find about more about this collection of curiosities from the worlds of medicine, nursing, midwifery and social work. […]
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The Rows of Chester: A Unique Creation or a Unique Survival?
The uniqueness of Chester’s Rows lies first in the imaginative adaptation of a common medieval building form to the city’s hilly site. However, they would not have seemed so unusual had comparable buildings elsewhere survived better. The talk will look at parallels for the building type, how it was adapted to the landscape, and the historical circumstances that prompted it. […]
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Talking Tours: Let’s Talk History
Lace up your plimsoles and sprint through the last century of Cheshire’s sporting past with Let’s Talk, History. Using historic sound recordings from Cheshire Archives’ collections, this free audio trail tells 100 years of stories about the county’s competitive, recreational and, at times, amusing sports. […]