Robert Excell Heritage Award
MKHA awards a heritage prize as a tribute to our late Chair, Robert Excell, for his tireless work to further heritage interests in the Milton Keynes area.
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Untangling a complex web: The Atherstone hat trade and enslaved people
Atherstone is well known for its 300-year role in the manufacture and sale of hats. The last hat factory closed its doors in 1999.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Living and Working in Antarctica
Monica Grady has curated the UK’s national collection of meteorites and has collected meteorites in Antarctica.
Olney Archaeological Society
A possible Iron Age cremation burial from the Midlands and its context
Cremation Burial C160, discovered near a Roman road in 2023, sheds light on mixed-use cemeteries and Iron Age burial practice at this time.
CLASP
Get Together
RLHS are celebrating their annual Get Together when members and supporters will come together for an entertaining afternoon with quiz, poems and buffet.
Roade Local History Society
The German Raid on Scarborough
The bombardments resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Keeping Faith at the Front during the First World War
Looking at the work these men did in dreadful conditions and who went far beyond their “calling” to comfort, help and assist the dying and wounded.
Towcester and District Local History Society
AGM
Followed by slides of the local area.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
RAF Eagle Squadrons
Renowned military historian Aldon Ferguson shares details of who and why they volunteered, their training and operational flying and mutual hate of Nazis.>br />
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Small but Perfectly Formed: A History of the Entrance Lodge
Dr Victoria Thomson’s talk explores the history and characteristics of the entrance lodge, with a particular focus on those in Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust