Glass, Faience and Pottery at Amarna
Amarna is the contemporary name of the capital city of the pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti,.and is famous for dazzling decorative and fine arts.
Olney Archaeological Society
Tuesday, 3rd September 2019
Speaker meetings
The Enumerator Strikes Back
This talk by Dave Annal will turn the spotlight onto the men and women who created the UK’s census returns since they first went to work on the census in 1841.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group)
Wednesday, 4th September 2019
Medieval Surgery
Steve and Eve Bacon explain the theory of the four humours that underpins medieval medicine and demonstrates the skill of the surgeon.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Thursday, 5th September 2019
History of Warden Abbey
This excellent talk will take us through the history of the once-great abbey, from its foundation in 1135 to the present day.
Hanslope and District Historical Society
Away with the Fairies
1n 1917 two girls in Yorkshire took photographs of fairies. When the photographs came to light they came to the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Lavendon Village History Group
Coram and The Foundling Hospital
he story of the Foundation’s conception, development and subsequent move out of London before it comes back to London in a different form.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Amy, Wonderful Amy
Roy Smart will give a talk about the life of the famous aviator, Amy Johnson who became the first woman to fly solo to Australia.
Yardley Gobion Local History Group
“Oh yes it is”, “Oh no it isn’t”: Unresolved questions of authenticity
Disputes are erupting with such frequency that the most topical cases we look at by the time this lecture gets delivered may not yet have hit the headlines.
The Arts Society North Bucks
Death in the Garden
Poisonous plants have been used to remove an unwanted partner, for medicine, aphrodisiacs, pest control, foretelling the future or to commune with the gods.
Towcester and District Local History Society
The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby was fought on the morning of the 14th June 1645 in the open fields of that small Northamptonshire village.
Olney & District Historical Society