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Sins as Red as Scarlet: A talk by Janet Few
As late as 1682, three impoverished women from Bideford were hanged in Exeter, condemned to death for the crime of witchcraft. At the dawn of the Age of Reason how did intolerance and antagonism in a prosperous Devon trading and fishing port erupt in this trial and execution?

A Teenager’s Boer War:  A talk by Paul Rimmer

At 18 years old, the youngest officer on active service in the Boer War (1899–1902), Vernon Kyrke’s experiences are told through his letters and photographs. Plus Lustleigh’s response to the war and why a statue in Exeter upset the people of Crediton.

Plant Hunters and Pioneers                                                     Caradoc Doy Over several generations from before 1808, the Veitch family and their plant hunters introduced

Beryl Trist Newman – the Lustleigh artist who ‘lived to paint’       Peter Mason Beryl Trist Newman (1906–91), with paintings in