A one-hour talk by Professor Ronald Hutton on Britain's pre-Christian religious evidence, with reference to Stonehenge and Lindow Man, followed by a Q&A.
Prof. Ronald Hutton is coming to the Verulamium Museum on Wednesday 10 February 2027 for a talk on Britain's pagan heritage. It's part of the museum's adult talks programme, so it's one of those mid-week evenings that fits in around work rather than taking up a whole weekend.
The talk looks at Britain's pre-Christian religious evidence, which Hutton describes as one of the largest and most varied collections of its kind in Europe, and perhaps the greatest of all. He'll set out what that evidence actually is and how to interpret it, with a particular focus on two very different examples: Stonehenge, the world-famous prehistoric monument, and Lindow Man, the bog body found in Cheshire. Between the two, you've got the massive, public scale of a stone circle and the intimate, personal remains of a single person, so they should give a good sense of the range he's talking about.
Hutton is a historian at the University of Bristol and has spent a long time on this subject. He's a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Learned Society of Wales, and the British Academy, and he's a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He also chaired the first national Blue Plaques Panel. In terms of what he's written, he's published nineteen books and ninety-six essays on ancient and modern paganism in Britain and the British ritual year, so he knows his way around the evidence.
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The talk runs for about an hour, followed by a Q&A, so there's time to ask questions afterwards. It's on Wednesday 10 February, starting at 19:00, with doors opening at 18:30. Tickets are £10, and the museum is at St Michael's Street, St Albans AL3 4SW.
