Sir Robert Banastre bought Passenham Manor in 1624 and undertook a period of refurbishment of the church from which fixings and fittings still exist today. Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Tuesday, 13th October 2026
In World War Two many secret sites between Aylesbury and Buckingham were related to radio communications – principally for the RAF. Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Tuesday, 13th October 2026
Milton Keynes Museum will be transporting visitors to the days of fairground fun with the return of its popular Organ Festival. Milton Keynes Museum
Saturday, 10th and Sunday, 11th October 2026
Martin Towsey’s talk will focus on Woburn Abbey garden and the 20 year programme to restore the garden Humphry Repton designed. Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Saturday, 10th October 2026
In 1936 Dame Laura Knight became the first woman to be elected as a full member of the Royal Academy in London, 168 years after its establishment. Arts Society North Bucks
James Cairncross will provide an update on the Almshouses and John Gosling will present a new talk on the history of the Almshouses. Friends of Great Linford Manor Park
Margery Kempe was an English Catholic mystic, who wrote through dictation a work some consider to be the first autobiography in the English language. Bow Brickhill History Society
Maria Greenhill looks at the Great Exhibition of 1851. presenting her talk as if she was a Victorian and had been to the exhibition. Buckinghamshire Family History Society
The manor houses’s location was identified through documentary research, geophysical and earthwork surveys and a small-scale excavation. Olney Archaeological Society
The talk explores the characters, consequences, and occasional farce behind some of Britain’s most memorable political controversies. Newport Pagnell Historical Society