Monthly drop-in club where a local historian gives a free talk on a different topic each month, followed by tea and a chat with other visitors.
Tea and Talk is back at Temple Newsam House on Wednesday 25 November, part of the monthly drop-in club run by Leeds Museums and Galleries. The format is simple: you listen to a free talk by an expert on a different topic each month, then stay on for a cup of tea and a snack to chat with the other people in the room. The speakers change every time, ranging from local historians and curators to community volunteers, and they draw on the museum's own collections as well as the wider history of the city.
On 25 November, Dr Henry Irving gives a talk titled Talking Rubbish at Temple Newsam. If you can't make that one, there's another session on Wednesday 16 December, when Jane Ellis talks about Do you remember the old cinemas of Leeds?.
The setting is a big part of the draw. Temple Newsam is a Tudor-Jacobean house built by Thomas Lord Darcy, once the largest house in Yorkshire, seized by Henry VIII in 1537 and later by Elizabeth I. Its 42 rooms hold one of the country's finest decorative arts collections, with Tudor, Jacobean and Victorian interiors, spectacular wallpapers, Chippendale furniture and fine silver, all set in 1,500 acres of Capability Brown landscaped grounds that include a rhododendron walk, walled gardens and ponds. The Tea Room serves produce from the estate's own vegetable gardens and meat from its farm.
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Tea and Talk runs on the last Wednesday of every month, except December, from 11:00 to 12:00. It's free and drop-in, so you don't need to book ahead. The next two sessions are Wednesday 25 November and Wednesday 16 December, both at Temple Newsam House in Leeds.
