Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farmers
Learn the sad fate of some illegitimate babies in Victorian and early 20th century Britain how the business was eventually brought to an end.
North Crawley Historical Society
Month: December 2025
“Bradle”, Wolverton and Stony
Colin Kightley is giving a talk on his family history through the north Buckinghamshire towns of Bradwell, Wolverton and Stony Stratford.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Murder and Mystery
Speaker: Kevin Varty. Non-members are charged £5.00 per event. Doors open 30 minutes before the talks start.
Potterspury History Group
The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia
Tim Richardson will describe the evolution of the English landscape garden across the 18th century by means of ten exemplary gardens.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Become a Bletchley Park Codebreaker
Join the ranks of the Bletchley Park codebreakers in this interactive session and get to grips with the basics of cryptology.
Bletchley Park
Robert Excell Heritage Award
MKHA awards a heritage prize as a tribute to our late Chair, Robert Excell, for his tireless work to further heritage interests in the Milton Keynes area.
Untangling a complex web: The Atherstone hat trade and enslaved people
Atherstone is well known for its 300-year role in the manufacture and sale of hats. The last hat factory closed its doors in 1999.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Living and Working in Antarctica
Monica Grady has curated the UK’s national collection of meteorites and has collected meteorites in Antarctica.
Olney Archaeological Society
A possible Iron Age cremation burial from the Midlands and its context
Cremation Burial C160, discovered near a Roman road in 2023, sheds light on mixed-use cemeteries and Iron Age burial practice at this time.
CLASP
Get Together
RLHS are celebrating their annual Get Together when members and supporters will come together for an entertaining afternoon with quiz, poems and buffet.
Roade Local History Society