Events for 19th January 2024 › Heritage
11:00 am
Winter Warmer Open Day at Wilderspin & National School Museum, DN18 5QP. FREE admission Handwriting workshops in Victorian Classroom on the hour Calligraphy and shorthand demonstration with Hilary Walker Talk about Vere Foster in partnership with Barton Civic Society Exhibition about Isaac Pitman and the invention of shorthand Chatty Cafe with reminiscence Free refreshments
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Having been born into a privileged, aristocratic family, Vere Foster went on to devote his life to the social betterment of the Irish poor in the nineteenth century. Jean Cannon describes how Foster helped emigrants to America, improve educational standards in Victorian Ireland, and promoted better healthcare for the poor. £4 non members
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