Dr Suzannah Lipscomb

Tudor historian, academic, author and television presenter having recently completed a new series on Channel 5 TV based on the three ages of Elizabeth I gives an intriguing illustrated talk on Ashbourne – ‘Elizabeth I the Glorious Years’.

How did the Town fair during Queen Elizabeth I’s glorious years?  What effect did Mary Queen of Scots have living just ‘up the road’ and were the good people of Ashbourne maligned when seeking a school charter it was claimed “for lack of education, the inhabitants are given over to wickedness and vices such as idleness, swearing, drunkenness, whoredom and the like”. Come and find out!