Events

Our monthly face-to-face meetings are a wonderful opportunity to socialise, catch up on community and Society news and to learn something new from one of our range of fascinating speakers!

Our upcoming talks and events are listed with details below and it promises to be a stimulating programme of inspiring speakers on many varied topics and fun outings. Our talks take place at the Sudbury Arts Centre in the beautifully restored St Peter's on Market Hill, doors open at 6:30pm, starting from 7pm with entry fees for members £5 and non-members £7 payable at the door. Everyone is very welcome to attend. Refreshments available from the onsite cafe/bar.

We are always on the lookout for interesting topics and speakers so please contact info@sudburysociety.org.uk if you have any ideas for future talks or any queries about the existing programme. Thank you.

Up Coming

Event

Sudbury and Suffolk’s Radical History - A Talk By Ashley Cooper

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Sudbury and Suffolk have a long and often surprising tradition of independent thinking, resistance, and reform. Next month, the Sudbury Society welcomes back local historian, author, and farmer Ashley Cooper for an illustrated talk exploring “Sudbury and Suffolk’s Radical History.” Inspired by the late Andrew Phillips’ much‑loved History Evenings, Ashley traces a thousand years of radical action, from the Domesday Book to the Victorian era, through the lives, beliefs, and struggles of the people who shaped our region. His stories include the Marian martyrs of the 1550s, the motivations of early Suffolk migrants to America, George Crabbe’s The Village, and a Sudburian’s protest against the harsh realities of the nineteenth‑century workhouse. This promises to be a rich and engaging evening that brings our local past vividly to life.