The Whole Art of the Book
Dominic Riley, bookbinder, artist and teacher, tells the fascinating story of everything that makes a traditional hand-bound book.>br />
Arts Society North Bucks
Month: April 2024
Silverstone from WWI to Formula I
Gerald Lovell’s talk is about a village dominated over centuries by the wood trade, yet post-war becoming “Home of British Motor Racing”.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Chaucer and Fourteenth Century Europe
Marion Turner is the J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford and an academic authority on Geoffrey Chaucer.
Olney Archaeological Society
Woman’s Land Army WWl
Come along to hear about the quite incredible contribution made by this oft-forgotten, overlooked ‘army’ of women who worked on the land.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Guided Walk to William Cowper’s Alcove
This is a leisurely and fact-filled historical guided walk though Olney to Weston Underwood, approximately 3 miles each way.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Royal Train
Anecdotes and images about Royal Trains through the ages. The Royal Train has been based at Wolverton since 1842 and constructed there since 1869.
Yardley Gobion History Group
The Victorian way of death
Speaker: Kevin Varty. Many churchyards being full, the opening of new cemeteries changed Victorian attitudes to death and mourning.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society