It’s Women’s History Month! Every year there’s a different theme and this year it’s Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations. Over the next four weeks we have a quartet of Horsham women for whom that theme was incredibly relevant! Dorothea Hurst This week we focus on a woman who belonged to an influentialContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s Women of History”
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Tony Wales – Horsham’s popular historian
One hundred years ago today (New Year’s Eve) Tony Wales was born in Horsham. In the following 82 years he became one of the town’s most popular historians, as well as helping to make Sussex folk songs relevant once again to a modern audience. His musical tastes evolved while working in a record shop inContinueContinue reading “Tony Wales – Horsham’s popular historian”
Festive final Friday Late for Horsham Museum
https://youtu.be/cYR6QxKE3-I Despite the early evening rain, there was a good crowd to enjoy Horsham Museum & Art Gallery’s final Friday Late. HAODS (Horsham Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society) provided the entertainment, singing carols and festive songs while dressed in period costume. HAODS carol singers They proved a big success, filling everyone with cheer. Museum visitorsContinueContinue reading “Festive final Friday Late for Horsham Museum”
Horsham’s link to Frankenstein
Today is officially Frankenstein Friday! Yes, there really is a day devoted to, arguably, the most famous monster ever created. Surprisingly, perhaps, Horsham has a strong link to this character that has become famous down the years, thanks to numerous block-buster films and TV shows. That link is renowned poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who wasContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s link to Frankenstein”
Museum Society chalks up another birthday
Last Saturday saw the 131st anniversary of the Horsham Museum Society – now the Friends of Horsham Museum & Art Gallery! The Museum was founded back then by the Free Christian Church (now the Unitarian Church), collecting items of educational and general interest which were stored in the church and brought out on various occasions.ContinueContinue reading “Museum Society chalks up another birthday”
Friends of Horsham Museum & Art Gallery 