£7 (BofWS Members £5, Students £3)

Elaine Joyce is a Birmingham based author who has just published a book entitled, ‘Nine Witnesses for the Colonel – King Charles II’s most True and Loyal Servant.’  Her talk will explore the tale of Colonel William Carless who escaped from The Battle of Worcester and joined King Charles at Boscobel House in Shropshire where the pair hid up the oak tree while Parliamentarian soldiers searched the wood below them.  Elaine’s book will be on sale after the talk.

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