Joan Wake

Speaker: Neil Lyon, local historian
‘The Best Burglar in the Country’, the story of Joan Wake and the Northamptonshire Record Society. This talk tells of how Joan single-handedly saved Delapré Abbey from demolition in the 1950s and devoted her life to saving our county’s historic documents.

£5 per talk or £15 for the series of four talks
Talk series by local history experts focusing on Notable Northamptonians that have contributed to the history of our town and county.