Festival of Archaeology Launch

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Join us as we launch the CBA Festival of Archaeology at the Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester.

Explore health and medicine in the past with our historical re-enactor.  Join ULAS archaeologist Stephen Baker for a talk on the mass graves and other burials recently uncovered as part of the Waterside excavations in the city.

We have a series of bookable events going on throughout the day:

Plague, Pestilence and the Black Death

20 min event starting at these times: 12.15pm, 1.15pm, 3.30pm

Location: Education Room

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Join our medieval physician, Dr Norgraves, as he explores the great and gruesome medical ‘cures’ at his disposal! 

The Waterside Burials

30 min event starting at these times: 12.45pm, 2.45pm

Location: Marquee

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Join ULAS archaeologist Stephen Baker for a talk on the mass graves and other burials recently uncovered as part of the Waterside excavations in the city.

In Conversation with Archaeologist Raksha Dave

Event times, 1.50pm - 2.35pm

Location: Marquee

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Raksha Dave is best known as an archaeologist who's featured on Time Team and Digging for Britain.

Following a welcome by City Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby and Neil Redfern, Executive Director of the CBA, Raksha will answer questions submitted by members of the public about her life and career to date and the valuable role of archaeology.

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