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    • Wiltshire Life Awards 2020
    • Roger Griffin steps down
    • Bill Reed and the Malmesbury Voices Project is the South West regional winner of the Marsh Trust Award.
    • Athelstan welcomes its 50,000th visitor
    • Moravian Church Purchase

Events

  • Art work produced by primary school pupils from St. Joseph's School in Malmesbury. 
  • The World's Oldest Family Tree found in the Cotswolds
  • History of the Warden and Freeman
  • Finding Athelstan in Malmesbury
  • The Knights Templar at War
  • Russia, 1812: Napoleon's Greatest Defeat?
  • Life in Little Somerford 1954-72
  • Devizes Castle
  • Aldelm and the Saxon 'palace' at Foxley
  • The Hong Kong Beat : Crime and Punishment in 1980s Hong Kong
  • Bobbin Lace Making
  • QUIZ NIGHT
  •  The Athelstan Coin Story
  • Heritage Open Days - Conservation conversations
  • Life in Roman Times
  • Six paintings by pupils of Malmesbury Secondary School as part of the Turner Diversity Project
  • In Living Memory - Works from the Athelstan Museum Collection in partnership with Caerbladon
  • Exhibition of Art work by pupils from Malmesbury Secondary School
  • Exhibition of Art work by pupils from Malmesbury Secondary School
  • Malmesbury Market Cross
  • Teatime Talk : Changes in Malmesbury High Street
  • Teatime Talk : Turner and The Sea
  • Teatime Talk : Malmesbury Lace
  • 1930s Camp Coach Holidays on the Great Western Railway
  • Book Launch : Discover the Malmesbury Hoard
  • Exotic Tales from Exotic Lands : The Story of the Silk Road
  • Teatime Talk : Postponed
  • Five Years in the Choir of Westminster Abbey and Beyond
  • Teatime Talk : Malmesbury in the late 13th Century
  • Teatime Talk : "A Case of Gross Exploitation"
  • Malmesbury Railway Days 1877 - 1962
  • Malmesbury Twinning Association
  • Teatime Talk : The Same Tree
  • Christmastide : Harp Recital
  • In the Footsteps of JMW Turner with Anne Hayhoe
  • In The Footsteps of Turner
  • Slow Art Day
  • Easter Holiday Family Fun: Lacemaking
  • Easter Holiday Family Workshops: Painting Eggs
  • Easter Holiday Family Fun: Roman Mosaics
  • A Malmesbury Railway Companion
  • An Evening with the Swing Rioters CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
  • Live Theatre: Posting Letters to the Moon
  • Windfalls and Wildings
  • Teatime Talk: Malmesbury Voices
  • "Athelstan's Triumph: Brunanburh, 937"
  • Jazz UK
  • Teatime Talk: Patagonia a Welsh Journey
  • Teatime Talk: Women of Malmesbury
  • The Anglo Saxons Marc Morris
  • Teatime Talk: Malmesbury Market Cross
  • Brief Encounter
  • Teatime Talk: Malmesbury Castle and the Struggle for the Crown of England
  • Byrdsong: The Only Pretty Ring Time - Music for Lent and Spring
  • Roman Rural Settlements in the South West
  • Teatime Talks: Malmesbury Pubs
  • War Detectives- the Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre Commemorations Team
  • Ocean Sheroes
  • Women of Corinium with Amanda Hart
  • An Evening talk with Lindsey Davis
  • Fossils and Dinosaurs
  • Revealing the Past
  • Heritage Open Day: Explore Ratcliffe Foundry patterns from the museum's collection
  • Malmesbury Coin Hoard: Conservation Live
  • The Wassail Tradition
  • Cancelled Rodmarton Manor: the Story of an Arts and Crafts House
  • CANCELLED “Finding Eliza Carr”
  • Selfies in Olden Days
  • CANCELLED Fossils and Dinosaurs
  • Lacemaking Workshop
  • “A Day in the Life of an Archeologist “ with reference to archeological digs in the Malmesbury area.
  • The surprising life of Daniel of Daniel's Well: by Tony McAleavy
  • Athelstan Museum - The unveiling of the JMW Turner watercolour of Malmesbury Abbey.
  • The Pursuit and Sinking of the Bismarck by David Bickerton
  • “Voices around Malmesbury Abbey” by Bill Reed
  • “Malmesbury in the news from the 1830s" by Susan Mockler:
  • "Belisarius" by Revd Oliver Ross
  • 'Valentine' Quiz
  • Ghost, Royals and Ferrymen
  • Museum Shop Sunday
  • "Turner in his time" - Sarah Stopford Introduction by HRH the Prince of Wales
  • "Turner and Girtin in Malmesbury" - Nicholas Reese Introduction by HRH the Prince of Wales
  • "As if by magic: The Secrets of Turner's Watercolour Techniques" - Nicola Moorby Introduction by HRH the Prince of Wales
  • Our Heritage of Song.
  • Benjamin Garlike: the Malmesbury man who was an eyewitness to the French Revolution
  • Museum Shop Sunday
  • Athelstan Museum Re-opens
  • The Tears of war
  • “Cross Hayes Voices”
  • Rebels with a Cause Virtual Event
  • "More Deadly than the Male" Virtual Talk
  • Malmesbury Reflections Book Launch
  • ‘The Cleveland Connection: revisiting the Intriguing Story of Malmesbury’s Oilmen‘ Virtual Talk
  • The World of Aldhelm
  • Back For a Future Green Workshop
  • Brief Encounter
  • Windfalls and Wildings
  • Weaving Workshop
  • Lacemaking Workshop
  • Guide Walk Around Malmesbury
  • The Clash of the Empires
  • Malmesbury Now and Then Book Launch
  • Posting Letters to the Moon
  • High Beeches: The Life and Times of a Cotswold Mill Owner's House
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