The Sculptures at Stowe
Gillian Mason has been very involved in the restoration and replacement of the sculptures at Stowe. Many of the original statues were sold.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Month: March 2023
Honorary Fellowship for Mike Woodger
Mike Woodger, who celebrated his 100th birthday in March, was a key contributor to the development of two programming languages, Algol 60 and Ada.
National Museum of Computing
Organising Your Research and Findings
Speaker: Emma Cox. How many times have you missed that vital clue because the information was not organised properly? A Zoom talk for BFHS members.
Bucks Family History Society
Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC)
Ben Donnelly-Symes’s Zoom talk will cover the first year of the ARC based at the Chester House Estate in Irchester being open. Donation of £5.00 welcome.
CLASP
Tree Visit: Batsford Arboretum
A spring walk to see the beautiful magnolias and flowering cherries. Displays of spring flowering bulbs, hellebores, daffodils and narcissi.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Reluctant Abolitionist? Reopening the Case of John Newton and the Liverpool Slave Trade
Professor John Coffey from the University of Leicester explores whether John Newton might be the ‘Anonymous’ speaking against the slave trade in 1762.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Understanding antiques
Mark Hill will take a look at what current and future generations of collectors are buying, why they are buying it and how they are displaying it.
Arts Society North Bucks
Welcome To Planet Fishermead
This is a special free film screening event. Did you know a spaceship landed in Willows’ playground …
Living Archive Milton Keynes
Jig-a-jig Tommy
Speaker: Bruce Cherry. Bruce Cherry is an author, tour guide and former university lecturer with a PhD in military history.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Alfred Cockerill: Northampton’s Forgotten Philanthropist
When speaker Bob Farey started researching Alfred Cockerill, the more he discovered the more he wanted to know.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society