Coaching Inns of North Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire
Julian Hunt will talk about the architectural features of coaching inns. They were usually quite grand with an obvious coach entrance.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Month: April 2021
Stories in Stones: the MEDICUS stories and the archaeological record
Ruth Downie writes a series of murder mysteries, the MEDICUS stories, set mainly in Roman Britain during the early years of Hadrian’s reign.
CLASP
The Morse code message that rebooted WWII resistance – 80th anniversary
A Morse code message from France sent by Georges Bégué announced the birth of occupied Europe’s largest covert force 80 years ago.
The National Museum of Computing
Growing Flax for Aircraft Cloth: a little-known story from the First World War
The crop had largely fallen out of cultivation, but in the First World War it became essential for Britain to greatly increase the amount it grew.
Olney Archaeological Society