Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Doors open at 12 noon for 12.15pm start.
A chance to see the current exhibition about Bedwell, as well as a visit to All Hallows Church after the talk.
Join the curators of Bruce Castle Museum & Archive’s current exhibition, Getting the Measure of William Bedwell, in conversation with Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown.
William Bedwell was the Vicar of Tottenham at All Hallows Church, who was a leading figure in the study of Arabic in the early 1600s, as well as having a great interest in mathematics and its application.
The discussion at this lunchtime talk explores the shared interest of Hamilton and Brown in Tottenham’s 17th century vicar. It considers what Bedwell’s manuscripts and books reveal about his life and times, and examines how Bedwell connected early modern Tottenham to the wider world.
Please book your free ticket for this talk via Eventbrite.
For any queries, contact Bruce Castle Museum & Archive on museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
Alastair Hamilton has held professorships at the universities of Leiden and Amsterdam, as well as at the Warburg Institute at the University of London. He has worked for many years on the relations between Europe and the Arab world, and he is the leading authority on the life and work of William Bedwell.
Samantha Brown is a PhD student at UCL whose research examines engagement with the Arabic language in early modern England. Her work develops new perspectives on William Bedwell, and she assisted our curators with the Getting the Measure of William Bedwell exhibition.
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