Forest Law protected deer for the benefit of the Crown, but not only the King (or Queen) enjoyed the hunt and valued the opportunity for hospitality and favour that hunting offered. Forests were royal playgrounds in which the feuds of the gentry and aristocracy were played out and deer were poached by the rich and powerful as well as the less well-off. Discover more about what really went on in Epping Forest in the early modern period. Free. No booking required.

The culmination of Artist in Residence Marion Sidebottom’s year-long project exploring how visual images can engage people’s interest in ancient trees and the Forest. Free. No booking required.

A talk at The View by Tom Rose, University of Nottingham, to accompany his exhibition next door in Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge. Find out more about the colourful individuals whose illegal hunting expeditions landed them in the law courts four hundred years ago. Tom is researching 'Hunting, politics and culture in early Stuart England’. Come along to this discursive and entertaining presentation. Drawing and colouring materials will be available for children who may be attending the talk with adults. Free event, but booking required: http://goo.gl/iU18bt