Armistice
Speaker: Stephen Barker. £3.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
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Treason, Gunpowder and Plot
Looks at the story of the Northants recusants, the Jesuit priests they hid, and how they came close to blowing up a king and Parliament.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Georgian Visitor: A Vignette of Garden Visiting in the Eighteenth Century
Richard Wheeler runs a garden history consultancy and lectures and writes on the history and iconology of gardens and their understanding and restoration.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Secret messengers: how Bletchley Park’s signals intelligence was shared during World War Two
Dr David Abrutatwill reveal the importance of the Special Communications Units and Special Liaison Units who shared Bletchley Park’s SIGINT.
Bletchley Park
The Best Burglar in the County – Joan Wake and the Northamptonshire Record Society
Joan Wake turned up at pretty much every Northants country house bullying the owners into entrusting their archives into her care.
Roade Local History Society
Wallis Simpson and the abdication crisis
1936 – the year of three kings! A talk by Roy Smart on a royal topic that has intrigued generations. Cost: £2.50 including tea & biscuits.
Lavendon History Group
The Long Paper Trail
Sue Paul will use an example of the papers discovered in an attic to demonstrate how we may find forebears hidden in private papers held in archives.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Solving historical ciphers with modern means
This presentation introduces the most important historical ciphers and modern techniques to break them, based on ‘Codebreaking: A Practical Guide’.
The National Museum of Computing
From teapots to Toy Story: a prehistory of computer graphics
A virtual talk by Jacob Gaboury, author of ‘Image Objects’, that traces the early history of computer graphics through a set of five objects.
The National Museum of Computing
Old Newport
Speaker: Don Hurst. £3.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society