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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: speakers and lecture titles since 1966

  • 2010 Lecture: Matthew Poole, Department of Art History and Theory
    ‘From chavs to contemporary art: Anti-institutionalism and iconoclasm in Essex’
     
  • 2009 Lecture: Professor Jules Pretty OBE, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
    'Essex: This Luminous Coast'
     
  • 2008 Lecture: Philip Crummy, Director and Chief Archaeologist, Colchester Archaeological Trust
    '"Always finding something": Highlights of archaeology in Colchester'
     
  • 2007 Lecture: Professor Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate
    'The Ashground: An Essex childhood'
     
  • 2006 Lecture: Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex
    'What are universities for? Reflection on 40 years past - and ahead'
     
  • 2004 Lecture: Simon Lyster , former Director of the Wildlife Trusts
    'Is there a future for Essex's Wildlife - and does it matter anyway?'
     
  • 2003 Lecture: John Tusa , Director of the Barbican
    'Shoemakers to the world: The Bata Estate on the Essex Marshes, 1939-1960'.
    Read the transcript of the lecture here
  • 2002: Professor David Cannadine , Director of the Institute for Historical Research
    'A Centenary of Civic Grandeur: History all Around us in Colchester Town Hall'
    A free copy of the 2002 Burrows Lecture publication is available, on request, from Sarah Mills
     
  • 2001: Keith Turner , National Trust
    'Constable: his Landscapes then and now'
  • 2000: Margaret Drabble, author
    'Arnold Bennett: Upwardly Mobile in Thorpe-le-Soken'
  • 1999: Graham Harvey
     'Reclaiming the Countryside'
  • 1996: Professor Anthony King , Department of Government, University of Essex
    'How will Essex Man (and Woman) vote in 1997?'
  • 1995: Margaret Gelling
     'Signposts to the Past - Placenames and Landscapes in Suffolk and Norfolk'
  • 1994: Professor Geoffrey Martin, Department of History, University of Essex
    'Some Essex Historians'
  • 1993: Dr Christopher Gibson
     'What Future for the Essex Coast'
  • 1992: David Cleveland , East Anglian Film Archive, University of East Anglia
    'Essex on Film'
  • 1991: Ruth Rendell, author
    'A Place in Fiction'
  • 1990: Ronald Blythe, author
    'The Essex Connection'
  • 1989: Norman Scarfe
     'Essex seen from Suffolk - A Comparative Study of Two Counties'
  • 1988: Dr A. Sutcliffe
     'Ice-age Mammals in Essex'
  • 1987: Anthony Howard
     'R.A. Butler'
  • 1986: Professor Stanford E. Lehmberg
     'An Essex Man at the Exchequer: Sir Walter Mildmay and Queen Elizabeth'
  • 1985: W.H. Liddell
     'From Forest of Essex to Epping Forest'
  • 1984: Nancy Briggs
     'The Georgian Country House in its Essex Setting'
  • 1983: Sir Nigel Strutt DSc, DL
     'Essex Farming in the last two Centuries'
  • 1982: Shirley Williams MP
     'What Chance for Jobs'
  • 1981: Bruce Kent , General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    'Nuclear War: Survival or Prevention'
  • 1980: Colin Ward
     'The Essex Plotlands'
  • 1979: Dr Arthur F.J. Brown , Department of History, University of Essex
    'The Chartist Movement in Essex and Suffolk'
  • 1978: Ronald Stevenson , F.R.M.C.M
    'Aspects of the Arts in Essex and East Anglia'
  • 1977: Dr Alan Macfarlane , King's College, Cambridge
    'Witchcraft in Essex'
  • 1976: Dr Paul Thompson
     'William Morris: Artist and Socialist'
    also 1976: Jack Lindsay
     'The Significance of William Morris'
  • 1975: Dr Christopher Hill
     'From Lollards to Levellers - Popular Radicalism in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century England'
  • 1973: George Ewart Evans
     'Oral Tradition'
  • 1972: Professor P.W. Edwards , University of Essex
    'The Extinction of the Elizabethan Drama'
  • 1971: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner , Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College
    'English Architecture of the Age of Shakespeare'
  • 1970: Peter Willmott , Institute of Community Studies
    'Social Life in London and its Countryside - 2000AD'
  • 1968: Jonathon Mayne , Victoria and Albert Museum
    'John Constable and East Anglia'
  • 1967: Peter Laslett , Trinity College, Cambridge
    'The Social Structure of an Essex Rural Community - The village of Ardleigh in 1976'
    also 1967: Maurice Cranston , Reader in Political Science, London School of Economics
    'Locke at Oates'
  • 1966: F.G. Emmison , Essex County Archivist
    'Independent or Intractable? The Essex Spirit'

 

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