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Evening Talk: The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend

  • 07/11/2025 - 07/11/2025
  • 07:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • National Civil War Centre and Newark Museum The Fighting Nightingales
  • Choose your own price: £3.00, £5.00, £10.00 Low Price Medium Price High Price

Evening Talk: The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend

The year is 1669, and it’s time for the annual Professor Edvard von Goosechaser lecture. This time the subject is mad scientists, fool hardy inventors and heroic herbalists. Find out which Royalist super soldier liked to dabble in science and how a hole in his head lead to a spectacular innovation in fashion.

The creators of The 17th Century Show bring you, The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend and Other Tales of Mad Science: A Professor Edvard von Goosechaser Comedy History Lecture. The year is 1669, and it’s time for the annual Professor Edvard von Goosechaser lecture. This time the subject is mad scientists, fool hardy inventors and heroic herbalists. Find out which Royalist super soldier liked to dabble in science and how a hole in his head lead to a spectacular innovation in fashion. Discover which inventor built the first ever lighthouse on a rock, in the middle of a war with France and during the worst storm in England history. And hear about how an amateur herbalist challenged the might of the medical establishment and almost got himself arrested for witchcraft. But which one of them had and amazing girlfriend, and why on earth did she explode? Join the Professor to find out.

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Event information

Title:

Evening Talk: The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend

Date:

07/11/2025 - 07/11/2025

Time:

07:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Location:

National Civil War Centre, 14 Appleton Gate, Newark-on-Trent NG24 1JY

Price:

Choose your own price: £3.00, £5.00, £10.00

Event Category:

Historic

Organiser:

National Civil War Centre and Newark Museum The Fighting Nightingales

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About the organiser

The National Civil War Centre invites you to explore one of the most fascinating times in UK history, sweeping you into a remarkable story of superstitions, serious sibling rivalry and seismic change which has affected the country we live in today.

See the realities of 17th century life through the eyes of people who lived it in our stunning galleries and bring the whole family to enjoy a fantastic range of interactives including our much-loved dressing up cupboard!

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