Was Your Ancestor a Transport Police Officer?
Steve Beamon gives some insights into research in this area, which is more difficult as British Transport Police are not geographically based.
Bucks Family History Society
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Medieval Wall Painting in Buckinghamshire and Beyond
A talk by Dr Miriam Gill, lecturer at Leicester University and tutor at the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Visitors are welcome.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Diarists
Speaker: Julian Hunt – Local historian and well known local speaker.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Living Archive Band Album Launch
The songs on A Bob a Bloody Day, a new album from The Living Archive Band, depict local people’s experiences throughout the Great War.
Living Archive Milton Keynes
Past, Present, Future: Codes and Ciphers
Learn how a selection of codes and ciphers work, from those used in ancient fields of battle to the basis of many of today’s secure communications systems.
Bletchley Park
Make No Little Plans – the city builders’ stories
This exhibition tells the story of Milton Keynes’s early years, told by those who were part of the Development Corporation.
Discover Milton Keynes
Family Tours – Amazing People, Amazing Machines
This is a fun family-friendly tour to find out about the amazing people and machines that helped break the Enigma cipher at Bletchley Park during WW2.
Bletchley Park
Alfred Cockerill, Northampton’s Forgotten Philanthropist
Speaker Bob Farey hopes that Northampton will recognise all the good and generous deeds the philanthropist Alfred Cockerill did for the town.
Roade Local History Society
The Silk Road: art, history and exploration
Susan Whitfield will recount stories of the arts, history and explorations of the Silk Road, based on her 25 years experience of research.
The Arts Society North Bucks
The Horrible History of Halloween
Steve Dimmer traces the evolution of this celebration, beginning in pagan days and showing how the ceremonies and superstitions changed.
Lavendon History Group