Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes’s first book, Kindred, is a critically acclaimed bestseller. She has a reputation for public communication including for BBC radio.
Olney Archaeological Society
News
Wild, Wild Women
How did Mary Reade and Anne Bonny become pirates? How did Mary Frith become Cut-Purse Moll? Why was Katherine Ferrers known as the Wicked Lady?
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Crypto Machines
Professor Chris Christensen will describe the cipher machines designated as JADE and explore some of the ideas used by the US Navy in their attack on JADE.
The National Museum of Computing
50th Anniversary Exhibition
Tingewick Village Hall, Main Street, Tingewick, Buckingham MK18 4NN. Come and find out more about the history of Tingewick. Free entry.
Tingewick Historical Society
1,000 years of history in 100 minutes
Walk through this picturesque village and meet some of the famous and infamous people, in authentic costumes, linked with its amazing history.
Grafton Regis History
A Guided Evening Walk at Stowe
Celebrate late summer and book a guided evening walk at Stowe to see the recently replaced statuary. Open to members and guests.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Horton Hall: one of Northamptonshire’s lost country houses
A talk by Maureen Williams, who has been researching the history of the Horton estate and published a book about it in 2019.
Roade Local History Society
Mrs Hurst Dancing
Speaker: Don Hurst. £3.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The expansion and replanning of England’s major cathedrals and churches
The speaker is Dr Frank Woodman, FSA, architectural historian and former Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education academic director.
Olney Archaeological Society
Living with Secrets
This virtual event will explore the similarities and differences between life for the Bletchley Park codebreakers and Los Alamos researchers during WW2.
Bletchley Park