Past Events

The WakeHereward Project is now in its seventh year of live event arrangements, here you will find reviews of our rich history of Lectures, Presentations and Living History re-enactments.

Hereward's Last Stand!

Aldreth 950 Festival - Oct' 27 29 & 30, 2021

Across three days we commemorated Hereward on the 950th Anniversary of the defeat of his forces in the Fenlands

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Hereward Returns!

Folkingham Heritage Festival - Sept 19, 2021

For the fifth year running we celebrated Hereward's return from exile, on this occasion, on the site of Folkingham Castle

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Hereward Rising!

2 & 3, 13, 19 June 2021

Our inaugural fundraising event, the Hereward Charity Challenge gained widespread exposure

On the Conqueror's Trail!

Cambridge to Ely - Oct' 27, 2020

Forming part of a research programme, the inaugural anniversary hike tracing the Conqueror's steps

Hereward Argentina

2019

David Maile & Maria Peltzer delivered three presentations on Hereward in Argentina in late 2019

Hereward Returns!

Bourne, Baldock's Mill - Sept' 12, 2018

For the second year running Baldock's Mill Heritage Centre hosted the Hereward Returns event

Cultural Heritage Hereward

Bourne, Baldock's Mill - July 26, 2018

Anthropologist Maria Peltzer delivered a presentation evaluating Hereward as cultural heritage of the Fens

Arise Sir Hereward!

King's Lynn, CoWA - June 29 2018

Lecture at the College of West Anglia 2nd Annual Humanities Conference

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Hereward Presentation

King's Lynn, Thorseby College - April 5 2018

A presentation on the cultural impact of Hereward for King's Lynn Civic Society