Giving Birth to the Tudors at Tutbury Castle with Supper
Overview
Here is a new talk from Lesley at Tutbury Castle. Lesley Smith, Curator of Tutbury Castle and well known to many Spice members as an entertaining and humorous speaker is now offering this latest talk. For those of you, of which there are probably thousands of Spice members who have seen “Sex and a Tudors”. Lesley holds an M.Phil in Tudor medicine and a specialist in the subject of women’s medicine.
Giving Birth to the Tudors: The thought of giving birth without all the drugs and surgical knowledge on offer in modern medicine in Europe is a daunting one for the mother and anyone witnessing the
drama of it all. Now imagine it is 1580 and what do you think might happen? Well there is a good chance a living baby would be born but the superstitions alongside
the formal medical beliefs of the day would be ever-present during the pregnancy and at the birth itself.
This fascinating talk will incredible as it might sound, create an evening of laughter. A hot meal will be served at the event.
Approximate timings...
Time of Arrival: From 7pm - meet in the tearoom and purchase a drink from our bar area.
Supper: 7.30pm. Please let us know any dietary requirements.
Tea and coffee: 8.30pm. We will serve tea and coffee in the Tearoom after meal. This will allow us to reset the Great Hall ready for the talk.
Talk by Lesley in the Great Hall: 9pm
Includes
Supper, castle entrance & parking, Spice coordinator and entertainment.
Location & Itinerary
Lesley Smith, Curator of Tutbury Castle and well known to many Spice members as an entertaining and humorous speaker is now offering this latest talk. For those of you, of which there are probably thousands of Spice members, who have seen “Sex and a Tudors” .
Lesley holds an M.Phil in Tudor medicine and a specialist in the subject of women’s medicine.
The food will be Steak & Ale Pie with potatoes with vegetables. Chocolate Brownie with strawberry & cream
The Castle is also licensed to sell alcohol.
Please let us know if you need a vegetarian option.
Host & Everything Else
It was a great evening and my guests enjoyed it too. Food was good, Spice members friendly and Lesley is an excellent speaker.
Absolutely loved this event. Great value for money, beautiful surroundings and the historian Leslie Smith was hysterically funny as well as educational. Please put another one of her brilliant talks on!
Coordinator was welcoming, friendly and helpful. We asked her a number of questions and she knew the answers to most of them. The ones that stumped her she went off and found out about for us. She didn't introduce us to one another but sat at our table and chatted.
Great event, informative, engaging and funny speaker. Her costume was amazing and she was happy to pose for photos! She had us completely hooked and wanting more! I wasn't ready to leave, could have listened for another 2 hours!
I thoroughly recommend this event and even think there is potential to extend it! Yes value for money, yes event details were a good description of the evening.
Hope to meet the volunteer coordinator again soon, she did a fab job!
Thoroughly enjoyed the event. Sharon made us all very welcome. The buffet and service good and Lesley Smith was both informative and hilariously funny. I'd like to see more of her incarnations as Mary Queen of Scots & Elizabeth I if Spice were to offer them.
This was an amazing night and something I would highly recommend to anyone that enjoys a giggle, would love see to anything by Lesley again she was open to questions and really gets the audience to interact with her.The food was also great with plenty of parking for all
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