Apr 29 - Museum Lectures Begin This Week
The present series of museum lectures, on the history of Gibraltar, opens on Tuesday 30th April at 7pm at the John Mackintosh Hall. The series explores the history of Gibraltar in five parts.
The first lecture will be given by Professor Clive Finlayson with the title “The History of Gibraltar in Five Parts: Part One – History of a Beacon”. Professor Finlayson will take listeners through a journey in time, exploring the attraction that the Rock of Gibraltar has had to people through the ages. From Neanderthals, through the classical period and the Pillars of Hercules, past Jbel Tarik the talk will consider the impact of the Rock in defining an identity, culminating with the way in which Gibraltarians related to the Rock during the evacuation, the closed frontier years and today.
The talk will be part of a series that, for the first time, brings together specialists in different aspects of our history with the view of giving a complete history of Gibraltar, told by Gibraltarians.
