The Ukrainian Personal Computers that Rebooted the USSR
Why did Ukraine take the digital lead during the 1980s and 1990s and what happened next? Find out in this talk by Mykola Shcherbyna.
National Museum of Computing
Month: April 2024
History Festival
Wander around the tent village set up in the Museum grounds and travel back in time to meet Romans, Tudors, Civil War Soldiers, Suffragettes and many more.>br />
Milton Keynes Museum
Towcester Local Heritage Days
There will be displays in the library. Talks will be given in the rooms off the main library. A guided walk by Brian Giggins.
Towcester & District Local History Society
40 years of Camphill in Willen
Join Tom Bridle, author of the book, ’40 Years of Living, Working and Celebrating Together,’ Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing.
Willen Village Heritage Association
Afternoon Tea and Talk
Join Keeper of Archaeology, Brett Thorn for a whistle stop personal tour of the new Discover Bucks archaeology gallery.
Discover Bucks Museum
Taplow Court, Berry Hill, Taplow
The 25-hectare site originates in the early medieval period, and has a C7 Saxon burial mound in its grounds, early-C18 pleasure garden and a small park.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
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
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