Discovering mystery masquerading as mundane!
In the final event in the 2025-26 Triskele Heritage lecture series, we will take a look at an architectural feature that is almost never considered - the corridor. We walk down them most days of our lives at home, at school, at work, at the shops, or at the pub. However, because they are such a familiar and functional part of a building, we perhaps do not think too much about them.
Corridors have a long and ancient history and this talk will trace their development, use, and status. We'll look at cross-passages in ordinary mediaeval houses, galleries in ancient pubs, and painted corridors in Tudor halls. There will also be consideration of the social meaning of corridors to occupants and visitors to buildings. Were you allowed to walk down every corridor? Were some doors off-limits? How did you know where you could walk? The corridor might seem mundane in the twenty-first century but we will take the long view and reveal many a mediaeval mystery!
The speaker, James Wright (Triskele Heritage), is an award winning buildings archaeologist. He has over a quarter of a century of professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the past. He is the author of Historic Building Mythbusting which was published by The History Press in June 2024. His next book, The Buildings Archaeologist, is due out in October 2026.
All you need to do is register via Eventbrite and – when the time for the talk rolls around – grab your favourite beverage of choice, get comfy and enjoy.
The event will take place on Zoom at 19:00 BST on Wednesday 29 April 2026 via Zoom. There will be a talk until approximately 20.20 GMT and then a questions and answers session. It will end no later than 21.00 GMT.
* Please note that this live event will not be recorded and made available online afterwards *
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