Winston Churchill’s Toyshop
“Churchill’s Toyshop” was a British weapon research and development organisation of the Second World War based at The Firs, Whitchurch.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
Thursday, 4th November 2021
Speaker meetings
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
Saturday, 30th October 2021
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
Wednesday, 27th October 2021
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
Wednesday, 27th October 2021
Wallis Simpson and the abdication crisis
936 – 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
Monday, 26th October 2021
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
Friday, 22nd October 2021
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
Wednesday, 20th October 2021
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
Update on Blick Mead from the September 2021 dig
Prof. David Jacques is Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Buckingham’s Humanities Research Institute,
Olney Archaeological Society