Join Emma Hughes (The Lady Time Traveller) as she explores the history of these fortifications and the role that they played in protecting the nation.
Doors open at 7pm, with drinks available from our Waterside Cafe.
Lecture starts at 7.30pm.
Standard Talk Ticket £8
Student Talk Ticket £5
Members Talk Ticket £7.20
Online Talk Ticket £6
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Emma Hughes (The Lady Time Traveller) is a Costumed Historian based in Cornwall, delivering education sessions, presentations and tours in historic clothing. Specialising in Tudor and Stuart, Victorian and World War II history.
The Castles of Pendennis and St Mawes: Defending the Nation with Emma Hughes is part of National Maritime Museum Cornwall’s 2026 Autumn Lecture Series ‘Cornwall At War’.
Other lectures in this series include:
National Maritime
Museum Cornwall Trust
Discovery Quay
Falmouth Cornwall
TR11 3QY
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