Tuesday, 24 June 2025
18:00 - 19:30
This event is free but booking is required. Book your tickets here.
About the event
Explore the Museum’s incredible Mary Anning specimens with Mary Anning expert Tom Sharpe and the Museum’s collection’s staff.
The event will include a talk by Tom Sharpe and Eliza Howlett on Mary Anning’s connection to the Museum’s collections, followed by an opportunity to look at some of the Mary Anning specimens in the Museum and some special archive material.
About the speaker
Tim Sharpe
Tom Sharpe is a geologist who has worked as a national museum curator, university lecturer, and expedition travel guide, mainly in the polar regions. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and has been Chair of its History of Geology Group and Geological Curators’ Group, as well as a trustee of Lyme Regis Museum – part of whose building stands on the site of the house in which Mary Anning spent her childhood. He has published on the geologists William Smith and Henry De la Beche and on the history of the geological exploration of Antarctica.
Eliza Howlett
Eliza has been at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History since 1993, and has worked in both the Earth and Life Collections. She was appointed Head of Earth Collections in 2017, and divides her time between collections management and collections-based research.
She co-curated an exhibition on William Buckland’s lecture diagrams for the 150th Anniversary Symposium (2006). She was interviewed about Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot for the Channel 4 series ‘Walking through Time’ (2016), and gave a paper on the Philpot sisters at the History of Geology Group meeting on The Geologists of Lyme (2017).
Accessibility information
| Wheelchair accessible? |
Yes |
| Hearing loops? |
No |
| Seating? |
Yes |
| Refreshments? |
No |
| Flashing lights? |
No |
| Loud noises? |
No |
For more information, please visit our accessibility webpage.
