Winchester College is home to nationally significant collections of art, archaeology and rare books. A new series of three films, each presented by a teacher at the school, introduces some of the most fascinating artefacts at Winchester:

Bartolomé de las Casas was a sixteenth-century Spanish friar who observed first-hand the atrocities committed by the conquistadores in Central and South America. In this film, Jan Hepworth (Head of Spanish at Winchester) explores an illustrated edition of Las Casas’s Destruction of the Indies, published in 1598, and discusses the author’s status as a pioneer of Human Rights and an inspiration for the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-73).

Film will be available here to watch during the festival and also on our YouTube channel

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