To provide context for the performances, exhibitions and guided walks we begin with a study day, where researchers and historians will explore the historical background to the events of 1588. The day will end with a screening of the film The Armada Chronicle, set in Southampton in 1588. There will also be a small exhibition created by the University of Southampton and attendees will receive a copy of the novel The Theatre of the World set in the turbulent times of Elizabethan Southampton. A book stall will have volumes from the Southampton Records Series for sale at a specially discounted price.
Programme:
10.30: Doors open, time to view the exhibition & book stall
10.55: Welcome
11.00-11.15: Dr John McAleer from The University of Southampton Project Team will present findings from the Maritime Communities Project and introduce the new data base
11.15-11.20: Q&A
Session One: Hampshire under Threat of War
11.20-12.00: Joshua Harper, from the Mary Rose Museum, has a Masters in Tudor & Medieval History from the University of Winchester and will speak about the ‘History of Elizabeth I’s Militia in Hampshire, and the defence plans for Hampshire’s coastline’. The talk will give an overview of the defence procedures sources Josh has transcribed for the County including Southampton, and provide a brief history of invasion threats over the 1590s, showing how the militia was organised and its defence procedures.
12.00-12.40: Dr Diane Budden, a historian of health, disease and medicine and Trustee at The Jenner Trust, will speak on sickness at sea in the campaigns of 1545 and 1588 and the impact on seafaring communities in Tudor Hampshire and beyond.
12.40-12.50: Q&A
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (this is provided as part of the day)
Session Two: Southampton & Spain
14.00- 14.40: Dr Cheryl Butler is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester and contributing editor to the Southampton Records Series. Her research specialism is 16th Century Southampton and she will examine the relationship between Southampton merchants and Spain.
14.40-15.20: Dr Maria Grove-Gordillo from the University of Bamberg (Germany) and formerly of the University of Sevilla, has a research specialism in Anglo-Spanish trade between the 16th-18th centuries. She will examine the events of 1588 from a Spanish perspective.
15.20-15.30: Q&A
Comfort Break
Creative Response: Pageants, Film & Novel
15.45- 16.00: Dr John McAleer will give an introduction to Historical Pageants, which is the inspiration for the street theatre production The Rev Shapcott’s Historical Armada Pageant on 3rd ,4th & 5th August.
16.00- 16.45: Introduction and Screening of the film The Armada Chronicle
16.45 – 17.00: Final time to ask any questions, view the exhibition and the collections at our venue The Mason’s Hall, Albion Place, Southampton and collect your copy of The Theatre of the World: the characters and events are inspired by the stories of real people and events in Southampton during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Early Bird Booking available until 1st July, £25 + booking fee, then £28 + booking fee, to include lunch & a copy of The Theatre of the World
Tickets from www.wegottickets.com