Items Acquired by the Library in April 2017

                              New Items Acquired by the Library
                                                 April 2017
                              (Classification in Bold at the end)

Books

Revealing Cumbria’s Past: 150 years of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, edited by Michael Winstanley, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2016 E1

From Blackfriars to Bankside: medieval and later riverfront archaeology along the route of Thameslink, Central London, edited by Elizabeth Stafford and Steven Teague, Thameslink Monograph No. 4, OAPCA, 2016 F34

Heritage Open Day

Events: 
Visit
Groups: 
Library

The Abinger Research Centre will be open to all for a Heritage Open Day event.

The librarian will be on hand to help with any research queries. Members of AARG and the Medieval Pottery Research Group will display and discuss aspects of their work. If it is a dry day then environmental processing will take place in the grounds.

Details about access are on our Library webpage and will be published in the Mole Valley Heritage Open Days booklet during the summer.

Strange tales and dodgy Derbys

Events: 
Tour
Groups: 
Non-Society

Look beneath Epsom’s respectable surface whilst you stroll around its ancient town centre. Discover dark deeds, wrong doings and ghosts who won’t rest in peace. Hear tales of Epsom’s own highwayman and the life of the evil Lord Rochester, together with the wicked Lord Lyttleton. Relive the time when Epsom’s spa was the height of fashion but the behaviour of some visitors was not as elevated as their pedigree such as Lord Baltimore.

Make a Mayan dream catcher

Events: 
Visit
Groups: 
Non-Society

The Mayans believed that the night air is filled with dreams, both good and bad. It became impossible for The Gods to protect all the children from bad dreams that creep into their minds at night. Mothers and grandmothers wanted to save their children from worry and fear, so they began to weave magical webs, later known as Dream Catchers, which would filter out all bad dreams and only allow good thoughts to enter their heads. The purpose of these Dream Catchers was to catch bad dreams in the net that would disappear at daylight.

Meet a Roman Soldier

Events: 
Visit
Groups: 
Non-Society
Periods: 
Roman

The Legions of Rome march into Ewell - enforcing the rule of the Empire. Discover what it was like to be a Roman soldier, having to serve for 25 years before receiving your generous pension - if you survived! Learn about the weapons and tactics that made the Legions so effective and so feared.

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