Please note the conference will occur in two parts/sessions in two different locations.
Session 1 - Unitarian Meeting House
11:00-12:00 - Open House at the Unitarian Meeting House in Friars Street Ipswich IP1 1TD The session is open-door and free guided tours will be offered.
Session 2 - The Hold, Auditorium
13:00-17:00 - Public talks and exhibits of Meeting House historic documents from the Suffolk Archives. Tickets for this event are free but must be reserved here on Eventbrite.
Doors will open at 13:00 and the event will close at 17:00.
Please note the talks will run from 13:30-15:30
The speakers will be Minister Emeritus Rev Cliff Reed, who will deliver the talk: "We are now in the Tabernacle of Meeting: The Origins and Founders of the Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House" and Dr Elizabeth Kingston Harrison, who will deliver the talk: "A Comet in the System: Joseph Priestley and the Emergence of Rational Dissent in the Eighteenth Century."
Refreshments will be available.
This event is being sponsored by:-
- The Centre for Culture and Heritage at the University of Suffolk
- Friends of the Unitarian Meeting House
- The Suffolk Archives
- The Ipswich Society
