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The Czech Connection, a talk by Caroline Cannon-Brookes
October 8 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
This illustrated talk will explore a range of historic links between Britain and Bohemia and their varying impacts. Amongst the topics included will be John Wycliffe and Jan Huss; Baron Waldstein’s travels in Elizabethan England; Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen; the English influence on 18th-century Bohemian parks and gardens; and King Edward VII’s visits by train to Marienbad/ Mariánské Lázně.
Tickets include a glass of wine.
Enquiries: info@czechfriends.net
Caroline Cannon-Brookes is an art historian, trained at the Courtauld Institute and a former lecturer in the University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education. She has led many tours to the Czech Republic to which she is a regular visitor.
EVENT ORGANISED WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE EMBASSY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC.
All proceeds raised go towards the care and conservationof Czech heritage.
Images, centre square, left to right, book cover courtesy of ABE Books; illuminated MS courtesy of www.history.ac.uk/richardII; image of Elizabeth Stuart by Jansz van Miereveldt; woodcut from1641 of the execution of Jan Huss; chalice, 15th-century Bohemia courtesy of Walters Art Museum; painting of John Wycliffe by Thomas Kirkby courtesy of Balliol College; postcard of Marienbad in the public domain; all above images from Creative Commons Wikimedia; statue of King Edward VII courtesy of FoCH
