Talks
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
Producing a good death: t he craft of the pre-modern executioner
Fri 21 March 2014
Fitzwilliam Museum
A talk in the Armoury by Professor Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University, who will describe how executions took place in Early Modern Europe and read excerpts from his book The Faithful Executioner - the extraordinary diary of a real-life seventeenth-century German executioner; with a chance to see the Fitzwilliam's Executioner's Sword outside its glass case.
Cost: free
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