Talks & Lectures in Preston

Grow Your Potential - Get Ready for Work

Need a hand getting into work or training?Drop in and have a chat with Harriet. She’s here to support you with anything that might be holding you back.Whether i…

The Harris, Preston

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Heritage Open Days - Suffrage Signs of Resistance

Discover the power of visual protest in this hands on histroy and making workshop.Make your own protest placard used by two major interlinking historical moveme…

The Harris, Preston

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Special Closing Event For ‘A Measure of Care’ Exhibition

Centred round a ledger written in the 1800s the artists returned it to the house it was first written.

The Harris, Preston

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Preston Docks Skulls with Harris Volunteer Fran

Discover the history behind the human skulls found during the construction of Preston Docks with our wonderful volunteer Fran.This talk will take us on a journe…

The Harris, Preston

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The Birley Exhibition - In Conversation: Julie Mayer and Rita Robson

To learn about their practice, their works on display in the Birley exhibition and their pairings with works from The Harris collection.Artwork by Julie Mayer.A…

The Harris, Preston

Foucault Pendulum Talks

Students from the University of Lancashire will be holding short talks about the pendulum and will take place on the hour between 10am and 3pm in The Rotunda.

The Harris, Preston

The Anatomy of a Robot - Interactive Show

Meet different types of robots and find out how biomimicry and AI helps them to do some very clever things.

The Harris, Preston

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An Audience with John 'Gilly' Gillmore

Step behind the microphone and into the remarkable world of one of Lancashire's best-loved broadcasters at Samlesbury Hall for An Audience with John Gillmore.

Samlesbury Hall, Preston

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Roll of Honour Talk with John Garlington

In commemoration of Remembrance Day, discover the poignant history behind Preston’s Roll of Honour which marks the names of nearly 2000 men from Preston who los…

The Harris, Preston

If Walls Could Speak...

Join us this autumn as Samlesbury Hall presents 'If Walls Could Speak...' - an illustrated lecture by Paul Hodgetts, the UK's 'priest hide' expert.Discover what…

Samlesbury Hall, Preston

The Cuerdale Hoard with Harris Volunteer Roisin

The Cuerdale Hoard is one of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, reported to be much larger than its nearest rival in Britain or Ireland and this talk,…

The Harris, Preston