A reflection on exhilarating year of Edmund’s Open Lecture Series

As we are about to open our Edmund’s Open Lecture Series 2025/26 this week, we wanted to take stock of the achievements and guest speakers who were involved in the academic series just gone in 2024/25. This was our biggest series so far, with over a thousand attendees across both the daytime, weekend and evening lectures.

For our evening lectures – we started in October, welcoming academic Dr Frances Young to discuss St. Edmund’s Abbey, with an engaging and detailed talk dispelling popular myths about the Abbey.