top of page
IMG_5419 2.JPG

What's On

Exciting Events

Talk: Revolting Royston

Talk: Revolting Royston
Talk: Revolting Royston

Time & Price

17 Apr 2025, 19:00 – 21:00

£5 per person

About the event

It is Wednesday 22nd June 1836. Opposite Royston Heath, the Earl of Hardwicke and local magistrates are holed up on a building site. With them are twenty policemen who had been rapidly coached in from London on the Home Secretary’s orders. Terrified, they can easily make out the 1,500 angry workers streaming onto the hill on the other side of Baldock Road, hell-bent on destroying the half-finished building they are sheltering in. Half of Bassingbourn has already gone up in flames.


How can they possibly hope to face down the mob?


Find out more in this fascinating talk from local writer Graham Palmer.


📆 Wednesday 17 April, 7pm doors open for 7:15pm

🎟️ £5 per person, booking required


Photograph: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

Share this event

Icon White.png

Keep in touch

Thanks for subscribing!

Royston Museum

5 Lower King Street

Royston

SG8 5AL

  • Threads

Thursday to Sunday

10am to 4pm

Free entry

© 2024 Royston Museum

Registered Charity No: 1196386

AF_Logo_RGB_White.png
https___kidsinmuseums.org.uk_wp-content_uploads_2019_01_KIM_manifesto_logo_RGB.png
bottom of page