Plessey and its impact on Towcester 1940-1989
Tony Howard’s talk describes the growth of the company becoming the town’s largest employer and its impact on the expansion of Towcester.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Month: April 2025
History Festival
Milton Keynes Museum takes history off the page and brings it to life with the return of its popular history festival this May.
Milton Keynes Museum
Concert for Codebreakers
Delight in an afternoon of music, as performed over 80 years ago at Bletchley Park for the Codebreakers, by musicians Bailie, Bernac and Francis Poulenc.
Bletchley Park
Charles I – King and Collector
This lecture celebrates the 400th Anniversary of Charles I’s accession to the throne..In total, he amassed around 2,000 works of art during his reign.
Arts Society North Bucks
Why is there an Egyptian collection at Discover Bucks Museum?
This Tea & Talk explores how around 400 objects came to be in Buckinghamshire, so far away from their original archaeological context in Egypt.
Discover Bucks Museum
Lighting of the Beacon
The Museum will be one of many sites across the UK and abroad lighting a beacon to mark this special anniversary. The beacon will be lit at 9.30 pm.
Milton Keynes Museum
The bombing of Saunderton Station
Speaker: Roger Young. This is the story of the night that two bombs were planted by suffragettes at Saunderton railway station.
Bucks Family History Society
Britain’s Pompeii: Three Centuries of Fen Research
Speaker: Dr Nicholas James, Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Cambridge. Remote lecturer.
Olney Archaeological Society
More Old Newport
Speaker: Don Hurst. £4.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Watts in A Home – Electric Dreams
Join a family fun day at The National Museum of Computing, where they’ll dive into the electrifying world of energy in the home!
National Museum of Computing