WI in the City - Insulting language in Tudor Exeter by Dr Todd Gray

Name: WI in the City - Insulting language in Tudor Exeter by Dr Todd Gray
Start: 2024-10-10T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-10T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Exeter Community Centre

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Exeter Community Centre | Exeter, EN

Insults in the Tudor period drew upon a wider vocabulary than that of today. Men were disparaged differently from women and there were words and terms specific to Exeter. The evidence is extraordinarilly extensive and we know more about what was said in the 1500’s and 1600’s than we do for the Victorian period. A lecture not for those easily offended.
Dr Todd Gray is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University and the author of more than fifty books on Devon. This lecture is drawn from his Strumpets & Ninnycocks and How to Swear like an Elizabethan in Devon.
For our members this event is FREE, female guests are welcome to attend for a nominal fee of £10 which is payable in advance.
This event is open to ladies over the age of 18 only.
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