Events

In 1790, Revd William Gilpin took a boat trip from Ross down the Wye and established a new reason to travel, to see landscapes as 'picturesque'. Join Chris Sullivan FSA on the journey, with later artists and diarists, and hear how the Tour developed into early mass tourism as transport links improved in an industrialising […]

An exhibition in the HARC foyer - a yearlong creative collaborative investigation into Herefordshire's Commons.

Attitudes to Babies and Bastards in 18th and early 19th century Allensmore. Yvonne Chapman explores the role of state and church in shaping societal attitudes to bastardy, and how the legacy of the Tudor poor laws trickled down the centuries. The evidence from Allensmore gives us glimpses into the actual lived experience of rich and […]