Stagecoach South West has confirmed it is expanding its smart ticketing scheme to include the Plymouth network.
From Monday (23rd March), all adult Plymouth Megarider and Plymouth Megarider Plus tickets bought on board Stagecoach South West buses will be stored on StagecoachSmart cards. Drivers will issue customers with a smartcard, which will store their ticket electronically, instead...
Families and football fans in the north of Plymouth are being invited to view exciting plans to create top-notch football facilities in the neighbourhood.
An exhibition is taking place at Southway Library next Wednesday 23 March to give local people a clear idea about the proposals for the new-look facilities.
The Council wants to create a senior pitch, two junior pitches, a...
In the last two years more than 2,000 people have been helped back into work or an apprenticeship in Plymouth.
In June 2014 the City Council pledged to support 2,000 more people into work or an apprenticeship, and working through the award winning and successful 1000 Club this ambitious target has been reached.
Council Leader Tudor Evans said: “We have kept most, if not all of...
Keynote Speaker: Professor Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London
Lynda Nead is a world leading authority in Victorian studies, whose work encompasses the history of British visual culture, representations of Victorian womanhood, the Victorian metropolis and the regulation of obscenity in the 19th century.
Drawing upon findings from her recent exhibition at the Foundling Hospital, London, The Fallen Woman (25 September 2015 – 3 January 2016), Professor Nead will examine the myth and reality of the fallen woman in the Victorian era, her...
Dr Matthew Frost, Deputy Director, Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine research in the 20th century has transformed our understanding of the world, but evidence of marine research dates back to ancient times.
Modern day research is often associated with Captain Cook and his voyages in the 18th century. Later studies associated with Darwin and then with the HMS Challenger voyage, brought new advances and many naturalists were beginning to realise the importance of a closer study of the seas and marine life.
The Marine Biological Association of the UK was...
Local Studies Day celebrates the history of Plymouth and surrounding area. Together with a full day programme of presentations there are exhibitions on local history and book stalls. Features include the Vikings, the Cattewater Wreck, revolt and taxation 1550-1640, war graves and film of Plymouth Blitz.
Further details and tickets available from February, visit www.plymouthmuseum.gov.uk
Nigel Overton, Curator City & Maritime Heritage, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
Nigel introduces us to a number of people from the early days of photography: Henry Fox Talbot and his photographs of Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth, and pioneering photographers such as Linnaeus Tripe, Robert Hunt and Richard Beard, all of whom were from Devonport.
The photographs they took, and evidence from the numerous Union Street photographic studios, provide a fascinating glimpse into the local and social history of the ‘Three Towns’, and the growing fashion for photography...
Sex and the City: Rethinking the Victorians series
Passions Between Women in Victorian Britain
Join the distinguished historian of gender and sexuality, Dr Lesley Hall, as she explores the fascinating subject of romantic friendship between women in the Victorian period. Were passions between women deemed appropriate only in adolescence, to be superseded by marriage, or were things rather different in reality?
Dr Hall’s talk will examine the stories of women who loved and were loved by other women in 19th-century Britain, which reveal a more varied account than the...
Plymouth Fringe Festival is a week-long celebration of live performance, featuring some of the most exciting companies from across the UK as well as the very best in home-grown talent.
Join us for over 50 performances at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre, The House, and some unexpected places too.
