Friday 20 March
Book Now
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Time:
07:30pm
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Venue:
Chelmsford Theatre Studio
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Tickets:
£8.50 - £12.00
Recommended age 14+
Wheelchair accessible and essential companion tickets must be booked via our Access Scheme
Friends of Chelmsford Museums Annual Lecture
The landscape of the Chelmer Valley is of great natural, historic and archaeological interest and increasingly recognised as the landscape of one of the greatest nature/landscape writers of the 20th Century, J.A Baker of Chelmsford.
The lecture with Nigel Brown will focus on the historic landscape, the product of 6000 years of human activity and show how it has been shaped by these “layers of memory” to quote Baker. It will offer some thoughts on how the understanding of the antiquity of the landscape may be used to enhance our understanding, appreciation and management of the valley.
Nigel Brown is an archaeologist, specialising in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, who has worked for many decades in Essex, closely involved in field work and research including the Chelmer Valley and Blackwater Estuary. He has published many articles and books on various aspects of the archaeology of the county.