The Burrows Lecture: past speakers have included Andrew Motion, Simon Lyster,
John Tusa, Margaret Drabble, Ruth Rendell, Shirley Williams and Sir Nikolaus
Pevsner.
The Burrows Lecture
2012
2012 Burrows Lecture
in association with
Essex Book Festival
Professor Peter Holman
‘After Byrd: Music in eighteenth-century Essex’
Sunday 25 March
7pm
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Tickets: £3/£2 – available from the 4 January, telephone 01206 573948 (Mercury Theatre)
2011
2011 Burrows Lecture
in association with
Essex Book Festival
Professor Ken Worpole
'Time and Tide: The moral theatre of the Essex shoreline'
Took place on Wednesday 30 March 2011 in the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex Colchester
Campus
2010
2010 Burrows Lecture
In association with
Essex Book Festival
Matthew Poole, Department of Art History and Theory at the University of
Essex
'From chavs to contemporary art: anti-institutionalism and iconoclasm in
Essex'
Took place on
Tuesday 9 March 2010 in Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex Colchester Campus
2009
2009 Burrows Lecture
In association with
Essex Book Festival
Professor Jules Pretty, Department of Biological Sciences at the University
of Essex
'Essex: This Luminous Coast'
Took place on Wednesday 18 March 2009
7pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, University of Essex Colchester Campus
2008
2008 Burrows Lecture
In association with Essex Book Festival
Philip Crummy
Director and Chief Archaeologist, Colchester
Archaeological Trust
'Always finding something': Highlights of archaeology in Colchester
Took place on Wednesday 26 March, 2008
at the University of Essex's Colchester Campus
2007
2007 Burrows Lecture
In association with the Essex Book Festival
Professor Andrew Motion
'The Ashground: An Essex Childhood'
Took place on Wednesday 21 March 2007
at Shire Hall, Chelmsford
The Annual Burrows Lecture was established in 1966 as the result of a
gift from Major J H Burrows, Proprietor and Managing Director of the
Southend Standard group of newspapers. In making his gift, Major Burrows
asked that each lecture be relevant to the county of Essex and be open not
only to members of the University community but the general public also.
Past speakers have included Bruce Kent, General Secretary of the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament, and authors Ronald Blythe and Margaret Drabble.
Topics have ranged from ice-age mammals in Essex to witchcraft in Essex.
For all queries about the Burrows Lecture please contact
Sarah Mills
(telephone 01206 872807)