News

The Society is publishing on its website a social history of post-war Olney. 1945 – 1960 is now available and the later periods have yet to be compiled.
Olney & District Historical Society

In the mid 1950s the local area had its very own rock‘n’roll group called ‘The Rockets, playing Lonnie Donnegan’s skiffle, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley.
Yardley Gobion History Group

Move around the galleries looking at the machines and their descriptions with hyperlinks to video and text explanations providing further detail.
The National Museum of Computing

On Sunday February 24th 1935 representatives from Oxford and Cambridge universities met on Sherington’s Knoll, by the village pump.
Sherington Historical Society

Charles Powell made a number of seemingly inexplicable changes to his friend Charles Warren’s will shortly before he died. What lies behind the mystery?
Simpson History Group

Books, films andrecordings tell how Bletchley Park won the war, but it was actually Watling Street that won the war in collaboration with WD Norton!

Volunteer Nigel Hicks has been busy putting two new collections online for the Living Archive: the Sullivan Collectionand the Well House Letters Collection.
Living Archive Milton Keynes

Buckingham Canal Society publishes a quarterly newsletter  which features regular articles about into the canal’s long history.
Buckingham Canal Society

Milton Keynes Council in partnership with MK Archives and the TCPA hosted its annual UK New Towns Sharing Day in January.
Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre

Calverton’s main local contribution to the WW2 war effort was playing host to two radio stations associated with Bletchley Park.
Calverton Records Project