The Great War Miscellany
This seminar features an excellent line-up of speakers on a variety of topics. Tickets £30.00. Buffet lunch included, plus tea, coffee and biscuits.
Milton Keynes Western Front Association
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Museum Guided Tour
Your guide will tell you the story of William Cowper and his friend, John Newton. You will learn how their lives came together.
Cowper & Newton Museum
English Coaching Inns
Julian Hunt will take us through the recognisable architectural features of the coaching inns. They were usually quite grand with an obvious coach entrance.
North Crawley Historical Society
How to be a King
A look at what we think we know about medieval kingship from Hastings to Bosworth which comes to some unexpected and surprising conclusions.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The Decline of the Great Estates
From the 1870s landowners faced a succession of challenges and calamities: agricultural depression and falling rents, the Great War and death duties.
Olney Archaeological Society
Organ Festival
Milton Keynes Museum will be taking visitors back to the days of fairground fun with the return of its popular Organ Festival.
Milton Keynes Museum
Screening: The Imitation Game
Join a screening of this box office hit, in the location where the real-life events of the fictionalised story took place.
Bletchley Park
Magic in your attic!
Join Brett Thorn to hear about two fascinating types of object in the Museum’s Weird Exhibition – witch bottles and concealed shoes.
Discover Bucks Museum
Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
This lecture by James Bolton focuses on Vita Sackville-West and the extraordinary garden she created at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
Arts Society North Bucks
The Washingtons and the Wool Trade
A follow-up from Martin Sirot-Smith’s talk in April. This time he will tell of the Washington family’s connection with the wool trade.
Towcester and District Local History Society