MKHA IT/Web Meetings
We now offer virtual IT/Web meetings to members every other Wednesday. These meetings will be held via Zoom from 10.00 to 11.30 am.
Month: March 2021
Community Archives and Local History
In this episode of the Local History Matters podcasts Dr Claire Kennan talks to Dr Ellie Pridgeon about a range of community archiving projects.
Percy Ludgate (1883 -1922) – Charles Babbage’s First Successor
Professor Brian Randell will describe the life and work of this amazing and little-known successor to the famous Babbage.
The National Museum of Computing
You are what you eat: isotopic evidence from Whitehall Farm and Early Medieval England
This Zoom talk by Dr. Samantha Leggert looks at the new stable isotope evidence from the skeletons at Whitehall Farm, Nether Heyford
CLASP
What have plants ever done for us?
This talk with Timothy Walke looks at mankind’s dependence on plants for everything from food to film and from painkillers to paint.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Digby Worthy and the Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer
Steve Kay will talk about William Digby Worthy, an unsung hero of British computing, as well his involvement with, and the history of, the TAC computer.
The National Museum of Computing
Civil Registration
Mary Teviot discusses the pitfalls of the indexes, spelling variants and errors in digitisation. This free talk is for BFHS members.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Weaving cultures of the Americas: the continuous thread
A common thread links the Incas, the Maya, the Aztecs and the Navajo. They have created some of the finest textiles in the history of the world.
Arts Society North Bucks
Origins of Andean civilisation and its apogee under the Inca Empire
Dr David Beresford-Jones is an author and a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.
Olney Archaeological Society
The work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and its educational charity
Presented by Michael Chapman, a speaker for the CWGF. Mike will also provide details of some of the CWGC casualties buried locally.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch