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LECTURE 08.10.24: THE CZECH CONNECTION
Edward Peacock writes:
"Congratulations to The Friends of Czech Heritage and Caroline Cannon-Brookes for such an interesting talk last night, illustrating historic links between Britain and Bohemia over the centuries. We saw the Bohemian Queen of England, Richard II’s wife Anne; we tried to reform the Church with Wycliffe and Hus; we went sightseeing in Elizabethan England and met the great Queen herself with Baron Waldstein; we fled Prague after the Battle of the White Mountain with the Winter King and his British Queen; we recast the grounds of many a stately home in both lands; and we lingered on a golf course in Mariánské Lázně/Marienbad alongside Edward VII. All with lovely photos. Thanks to all."
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.
Image above, Caroline Cannon-Brookes with our Chairman Peter Jamieson.
EVENT ORGANISED WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE EMBASSY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
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Images, 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