This lecture by Dr Thomas Pickles will use the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Latin histories, royal charters (land grants), and Old English poetry to throw light on the kings of the English and their courtly society.

This lecture by Dr Katherine Wilson will use ducal histories, accounts, inventories, surviving residences, and visual images to analyze the largest and most admired court in later medieval Europe.

Liz Stewart, Curator of Archaeology and the Historic Environment at the Museum of Liverpool, will join us to explore the stories associated with the Malpas, Knutsford and Poole Hoards of Roman coins and jewellery.

Come and enjoy some refreshments fit for a royal, even a birthday cake! We’ll also enjoy some film footage of Prince Charles and other royal children growing up.

Do you love seeing photographs of Chester? Take a look at our imagebank of many thousands of photos taken from the early days of photography through to well-remembered shots from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.

Coin expert, Matthew Ball of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, will explore the varied and fascinating Roman coins in the museum’s collections, unlocking their hidden stories and meanings.

There are a number of important hoards in the Grosvenor Museum collections deposited in Cheshire from Prehistoric times to the 17th-century Civil War. This talk will explore them in more detail, and look at the various times of crisis which caused them to be deposited.