Disover the forgotten story of two of the three founding organisations of the society we know today as the Plymouth Athenaeum.
Discover the connections to Charles Darwin, P. T. Barnum and the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Owen Ryles is Chief Executive of the Plymouth Athenaeum and a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Zoological Society and the Royal Society of Arts.
This lecture was originally given to the Plymouth Athenaeum on Thursday, 21st May 2020.