Tuesday 18 September 2018

Westminster’s Raleigh 400 Symposium


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Statue of Sir Walter Raleigh at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina

Raleigh’s legacy in the New World is well established, if only in the naming of the capital of the US state of North Carolina.

‘Sir Walter Raleigh beyond England’ is the title of a Symposium being conducted at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster on Monday 29 October, from 4.00 to 5.30pm, following the Sung Eucharist held the previous day.

Speakers from the USA who will contribute to the event include Dr Eric Klingelhofer, Emeritus Professor of History, at Mercer University, Georgia. Dr Klingelhofer has been involved in archaeological fieldwork at sites in Ireland and the Caribbean as well as at sites related to Elizabethan colonization in North Carolina.

Also speaking will be Dr Beverley Straube, Curator/Archaeologist, at the First Colony Foundation (FCF), with which Dr Klingelhofer has been involved.  

The Foundation, a North Carolina  non-profit organization formed in April 2003, is dedicated to conducting archaeological and historical research relating to the story of America’s beginnings with the attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish English colonies at Roanoke Island in the 1580s under his charter from Queen Elizabeth I.

You can read more about the important and fascinating work of the FCF at https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/

To book tickets (free) for the St Margaret’s Symposium, visit the Eventbrite website
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-sir-walter-raleigh-beyond-england-tickets-50164325849

To read about the Raleigh Lecture which follows the Symposium, click here
http://raleigh400.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-raleigh-400-westminster-lecture-life.html

An exhibition 'Sir Walter Raleigh and Virginia' will run from 
Monday 28 October – Wednesday 31 October:
Free entry. 

For opening times, please see www.westminster-abbey.org


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