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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Westminster’s Raleigh 400 Commemoration

St Margaret's Church, Westminster

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Immediately following his execution in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, on 29 October 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was buried under the chancel of nearby St Margaret’s Church.

A special Sung Eucharist at St Margaret’s will take place at 11.00 am on Sunday 28 October, at which the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall will preach.  

If you would like to attend, please contact the Rector’s Secretary by email: 

pamela.carrington@westminster-abbey.org

The service is one of various commemorative events which are taking place at St Margaret’s.

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Raleigh 400 concert in Exeter

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Back in January I mentioned the series of concerts staged to mark the Raleigh 400^th anniversary by lutenist Din Ghani and soprano Gillian Wormley, members of the group Musick in the Ayre.  

The group’s musical styles range from Renaissance to early Baroque, and the 2018 programme has been chosen with Sir Walter’s poems in mind: there are songs based on his works as well as some associated with other significant personages - Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Prince Henry to name a few - and with the New World which fascinated Raleigh.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Exeter. The church was built between 1865 and 1868 and is said to possess the highest spire west of Salisbury at 70 m (230 ft

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This Saturday's concert is entitled ‘Amor et virtute: a portrait in song of Walter Raleigh’, and takes place in the Exeter church of St Michael and All Angels, Mount Dinham. The programme, put together by Din Ghani, will be similar to that performed at the National Portrait Gallery in London on 23 February. 

St Michael and All Angels has a special connection to the Great Devonian. Raleigh’s interest in falconry is well known, and the church is celebrated for its peregrine falcons, described as probably the most productive and thoroughly researched family of nesting falcons in Devon!  

Come along this Saturday 22 September and celebrate Sir Walter’s life with Musick in the Ayre and their 'Amor et virtute' concert in honour of the Raleigh's 400th anniversary. The concert is from 3.00 - 4.00 pm. Doors open at 2.30 pm. 

Tickets £12 at the door (seniors £10; u 16 £6), online booking arrangements with £1 discount via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exeter/st-michaels-and-all-angels-church-mount-dinham/amor-et-virtute-lute-songs-associated-with-sir-walter-raleigh-d-1618

Details about the church are at https://www.stmichaelsmountdinham.org.uk/

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A Ramble with Raleigh (2)

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Here are pages 3 and 4 from the downloadable 10-page document about Sir Walter Raleigh. It’s intended as a useful guide to teachers and others who may be planning a visit to the Budleigh area as part of a class project on our local hero.

Contact mr.downes@gmail.com if you would like a copy.

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A National Trust visit to Fairlynch

News of the extended loan of ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’ has resulted in a further boost for visitor numbers, including increased interest from groups. Seen here with Chairman Trevor Waddington are members of the  Exeter & District National Trust group who visited on 26 July.

Group leader Nerina Frampton was delighted with the visit: ‘I cannot begin to thank you enough for the warmth of your reception, for doing so much to make us welcome and for your sheer expertise,’ she told Trevor. ‘Every single one of our group told me how much they had enjoyed their visit and seeing some of your permanent and temporary treasures.’   

Sir John Everett Millais’ painting ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’ continues to be the main attraction for visitors. The Fairlynch Raleigh 400 exhibition provides a rare chance to see the painting at eye-level, so details can now be appreciated. It’s only recently that I realized that what I thought was a basket, to the right of the sailor, seems to be lined on the outside with exotic feathers. 

Could it be, like the toucan, next to it, something that the sailor brought back from his travels in the New World? Could it in fact be some sort of upturned headgear worn by a native of somewhere like Guyana, which Raleigh would visit on two occasions? Has Millais painted it to balance the smart green hat with its feather, next to young Walter?

The painting goes back to London on 31 October, but until then you have the chance to admire this magnificent piece of Victorian artistic romance; and there’s lots more to see in the exhibition.  Group visits are welcome. 

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Sir Walter's Women: Checking out the Great Hall

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Fantastic locations for this year’s dramas about Sir Walter to coincide with the 400^th anniversary of his death. First there was Hayes Barton – Raleigh’s birthplace just outside East Budleigh – for the first performance of Steve Andrews’ From Exe to Axe on 21 August.

And looking forward to 14 and 15 September we have 2TimeTheatre's production of  ‘Sir Walter’s Women’ in the Great Hall at Winchester, where Raleigh was tried for treason in 1603.

Pictured here, inspecting the location in advance of the performance, are actors Adam Kotz, Liz Garland and Jilly Bond who play Raleigh, Bess Throckmorten and Queen Elizabeth I.

Adam Kotz seeks inspiration from the history of Sir Walter Raleigh 

Where else for a play about Sir Walter? 

Could a possible location be the Tower of London, where Raleigh spent 13 long years as a prisoner after his trial in Winchester?

Performance dates and times of 'Sir Walter's Women':

19.00 – Friday 14 September

18.00 and 20.00 – Saturday 15 September

The Great Hall, Winchester, SO23 8UJ

Free admission

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Raleigh and Modern Adventurers

Above: Benedict Allen FRGS will be speaking at Exeter's Northcott Theatre on 1 October

Four centuries after Sir Walter’s voyages to the New World he is still revered as a great British explorer by today’s travellers in the remoter parts of our planet.

When ventures like Operation Drake and Operation Raleigh were begun in 1978 and 1984 the founders must surely have had these great Elizabethans in mind. So it was a bit strange to find no trace of Sir Walter on the Raleigh International website at https://raleighinternational.org

But this is what Benedict Allen FRGS had to say about Raleigh:  

'Having read about him since childhood, and then negotiating the Orinoco myself, and over the years visiting his house and by contrast his room in the Tower of London, reading his poems and thinking of his dreams, fulfilled or not, I feel such an attachment to this hugely intelligent, gloriously daring and yet highly sensitive man.'

Roz Savage  MBE FRGS  English ocean rower, environmental advocate, writer and speaker arrives at Honolulu in Hawaii. You can find out more about Roz at https://www.rozsavage.com 

And when ocean rower Roz Savage MBE heard about the celebrations on 28 and 29 October in honour of Raleigh at St Margaret’s Westminster she told me: 'These sound like wonderful events, in honour of a great explorer' and was sorry that she’ll be otherwise engaged.

Author, environmentalist and film-maker, Benedict will be speaking about his adventures when he visits Raleigh’s home county on 1 October. 

He’ll be at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter telling the whole unvarnished truth of his most recent adventure – a solo expedition to Papua New Guinea, during which he filmed his journey to visit a community he had befriended thirty years earlier. 

He’ll be telling exhilarating tales from his life as an explorer and show never-before-seen material from his travels across the globe. 

You can read more about Benedict’s talks at http://www.benedictallen.com/

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