As 2017 draws to a close, the year when local charity Hospiscare celebrated its 35th Anniversary, Dr John Rutter who worked for the organisation in the early 80s is back working there again now at the age of 69. He reflects on how it all started and looks back on his own career to share his thoughts on caring for patients with a terminal illness.
Dr John, who is married and has five daughters, has always lived in Exeter. He recalls: “Back in the 1980s I was caring for the father of one of my friends. He was dying of cancer. I remember visiting him throughout the night and...
At the Phoenix Theatre in Exeter, Thursday 14th September, 7.30pm. Tickets £10
June 11th 1685. The Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme Regis with 83 men to raise a Protestant army against James II, and begin what was to be England’s last rebellion against the Crown. Five weeks later and with a 3000-strong army swelled by dissenting men and women from Dorset, Devon and Somerset, Monmouth prepared to fight the last ever pitched battle on English soil, and the first step towards modern democracy. This epic history of Dorset, Devon and Somerset, told through the eyes of Alice who joins the...
The History of Parliament Trust is launching an exciting new oral history project based at the Devon Heritage Centre, Exeter. ‘From the Grassroots’ will create a sound archive dedicated to local politics in Devon. The project will help celebrate Devon’s rich political history as told by the participants themselves, by interviewing those deeply involved in the political process within the county itself – councillors, activists, campaigners – and share these memories and stories on a website and through a programme of local events.
The project will begin in the autumn of 2013, after...
A light-hearted survey of some of the more unusual characters to hold ecclesiastical office in the Diocese of Exeter. Using papers from the Cathedral Archive and the County Record Office, Paul Evans, who is giving the lecture, explores the lives some of Devon's clergy who have not merely erred and strayed from the social, cultural and liturgical norms of the Church of England, but also those who naughtily followed the devices and desires of their own hearts. From Bishops to unbeneficed preachers (sometimes not without reason), this lecture aims to explore a broad and colourful...
