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TMS Lectures: Autumn - Winter 2025
7th Oct 2025, 10:45 am - 28th Jan 2026, 12:00 pm
Browse all the upcoming lectures organised by Torquay Museum Society as part of their Autumn - Winter season!
TALK: Dartmoor Past and Present
7th Oct 2025, 10:45 am
We commence the 2025 Autumn Programme with the ever-popular John Risdon, as he explores Dartmoor’s history up to the present day.
TALK: Kelly Mine
8th Oct 2025, 10:45 am
Devon had an extensive iron mining industry with micaceous haematite being mined in the Wray Valley. Kelly Mine closed in 1951 but was saved by KMPS and is now a volunteer led site showing what life was like in mines such as these in the 1920s?
TALK: The Society of Wildlife Artists
14th Oct 2025, 10:45 am
Julia Manning, an artist and printmaker based in Somerset, talks about her work and the Society of Wildlife Artists, of which she is a member.
TALK: The Life and Tides of the Moon
15th Oct 2025, 10:45 am
Our Moon has had a fundamental effect on the evolution and continued progress of Life on Earth and we would not be here without it. This lecture explores how the Moon came to be and how it enables the flourishing of Nature around us.
TALK: Lizards Around the World
21st Oct 2025, 10:45 am
Roger has studied the ecology and thermoregulatory behaviour of lizards over a 45-year period in more than 10 countries on 5 continents and he pioneered the use of infra-red thermography in biology when this was a newly-emerging technology. The talk describes some of this work with anecdotes about lizards, people and places.
TALK: CO2 And You
22nd Oct 2025, 10:45 am
We examine the unexpected severe effects of high CO2 concentrations. The carbonate - bicarbonate reaction and its importance in diverse fields including: your domestic water systems, the operation of steam engines and marine yacht toilets.
TALK: Wessex - An Ancient Landscape
29th Oct 2025, 10:45 am
Wessex – an ancient landscape. Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Cornwall (Thomas Hardy’s Wessex) as portrayed by artists.
TALK: Bats and Ladders
4th Nov 2025, 10:45 am
An introduction to British bats and an entertaining view of what it takes to be involved in wildlife conservation. It’s also a quirky perspective on what we see as we are surveying the homes and properties of other people.
TALK: The History of Stover Canal
5th Nov 2025, 10:45 am
This talk covers the construction, methods of operation and reasons for the decline and closure of the Stover Canal from 1790 to 1943.
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