Liven up a dark, cold evening by enjoying one or more of the five “Hands On History” talks on Tuesday evenings between 1 February to 1 March 2011, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at Verulamium Museum, St Albans.

Tickets cost £6 per talk and can be obtained from Verulamium Museum. For further information e-mail: [email protected] or telephone: 01727 751814.

The programme includes:-

Tuesday 8 February
The Second Battle of St Albans
One of the bloodiest battles in England that marked a major escalation in the Wars of the Roses

Tuesday 15 February
St Albans and its Historical Environment
Archaeological work over the past 20 years

Tuesday 22 February
Children of the Labouring Poor
The working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire

Tuesday 1 March
The Pig War
A strange event in the 1850s where Britain and America nearly went to war over the ownership of a tiny island and a pig!