Piping down the valleys wild
A concert of early music by the Fiori Musicale Chamber Ensemble.. Celebrating the Churches Conservation Trust Festival Week.
Friends of St Lawrence, Broughton
Month: May 2026
The Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan and Hubert van Eyck is the first dateable painting of the Northern Renaissance and a milestone in the history of art.
Arts Society North Bucks
Dukes of Grafton
Presented by David Marks. Doors open at 7:00. All welcome, refreshments available. .£5.00 entry.
Cosgrove History Group
Northamptonshire transport in the past
How did our ancestors or even us as youngsters travel in days gone by? Jon-Paul Carr from the Northamptonshire Heritage Forum makes a return visit.
Towcester and District Local History Society
The de Havilland Aircraft Company: Hertfordshire’s contribution to aviation history
Alistair Hodgson looks at the life and career of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, starting from his earliest flights to the global business that he established.
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Open Day
This 13C parish church is endowed with 15C outstanding wall paintings, chained books from the Reformation and Victorian stained glass by Gibbs and Kempe.
Friends of St Lawrence, Broughton
Lotions, Potions & Dubious Cures
In the days long before the advent of the NHS there were a great many very unusual ways of dealing with illness & various health conditions.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Breach of Promise to Marry
Denise Bates investigates the social and cultural history of broken engagements between 1780-1970 and why the law allowed claims for damages.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Soldiers, Saints and Sinners: Oxfordshire Characters from the British Civil War 1642-51
Oxford became the Royalist capital in late 1642 and Oxfordshire was on the front line with parliamentary Buckinghamshire.
Tingewick Historical Society
Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and the British Empire
Speaker: Dr Sean Lang, Artistic Director of BOATS Theatre and Honorary Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, playwright and broadcaster.
Olney Archaeological Society