Heritage events
Heritage
10.00am Saturday 22 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Saturday 22 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
10.00am Saturday 22 September
Giant Steps
Audio drama with community performers
Show times at 10.00am, 1.00pm and 4.00pm. A professionally written and directed audio promenade drama commissioned for the Gravity Fields Festival. In partnership with BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Outreach and University of Lincoln. Age 11+
Heritage
12.00pm Saturday 22 September
Newton's Instruments
Dr Jonathan Hare
Beautiful recreations of seventeenth century scientific apparatus demonstrated by Dr Jonathan Hare. Age 10+. SOLD OUT
Heritage
12.15pm Saturday 22 September
On The Newton Papertrail
Professor Rob Iliffe
The untold story of Newton's private papers stretches over nearly three hundred years. What secrets do they contain and why has it taken so long to uncover them?
Heritage
3.00pm Saturday 22 September
Unveiling of Newton’s Plaque at the site of the Apothecary
Civic Society
The Grantham Civic Society invites you to join an official unveiling of a blue plaque in honour of Sir Isaac Newton. Unveiling by Professor Martin Rees, Master of Trinity College Cambridge.
Heritage
3.00pm Sunday 23 September
Isaac Newton: An Outsider in the Age of Curiosity
Dr Philip Ball
Vice, Virtue and Mathematics. The Scientific Revolution founded on fact or curiosity?
Heritage
4.45pm Sunday 23 September
Isaac Newton, Lawyer
Professor Rob Iliffe
When his opponents turned science into a ‘litigious lady’, Newton used his forensic expertise in dealings with tenants, academics and contemporaries.
Heritage
10.00am Monday 24 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Monday 24 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
12.15pm Monday 24 September
Newton and the Longitude
Dr Rebekah Higgitt
Why should sailors be grateful to Newton? His theory of the motions of heavenly bodies was of fundamental importance to finding longitude at sea.
Heritage
4.15pm Monday 24 September
Integrity and Accuracy: Sir Isaac Newton’s legacy to the Royal Mint
Graham Dyer
For the last thirty years of his life Sir Isaac Newton was actively involved in the running of the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. The talk will describe what he did at the Mint and assess the long-term value of what he achieved.
Heritage
10.00am Tuesday 25 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Tuesday 25 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
12.15pm Tuesday 25 September
An Astronomer, His Friend and Their Teacher
Helen Martin
Two Grantham boys - America's first modern astronomer, Arthur Storer, his famous friend, Sir Isaac Newton and their extraordinary teacher, Henry Stokes.
Heritage
10.00am Wednesday 26 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Wednesday 26 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
10.00am Thursday 27 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Thursday 27 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
12.15pm Thursday 27 September
Isaac Newton and the Sensorium of God
Dr Stuart Clark
Isaac Newton: quintessential scientist – also alchemist, maverick theologian, and arch-heretic. Just what did Newton mean when he called the Universe: The Sensorium of God?
Heritage
10.00am Friday 28 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Friday 28 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Heritage
7.00pm Friday 28 September
Transformation of the Town
Grantham - as you have never seen it! The town centre comes alive with Newton-themed processions, spectacle, professional and community performers.
