Royal Bastards – A Quest for the Crown
This talk, a sequel to Royal Mistresses given in 2018 will reveal the several “Royal Bastards” children of royals and the illicit lovers.
Towcester and District Local History Society
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Coaching Inns
Speaker: Julian Hunt – Local historian and well known local speaker.
Olney & District Historical Society
The rebuilding of the town of Ypres after its total destruction in the Great War
This lecture is illustrated by original photographs of Ypres before World War I. Further photographs illustrate the same buildings after their destruction.
The Arts Society North Bucks
The History of Phipps Brewery in Towcester and Northampton
Speaker: Alaric Neville. Along with brother Quentin, Alaric was responsible for reviving Phipps IPA. In 2014 he restored the Albion Brewery in Northampton.
Milton Keynes Museum Society
My Father’s journey through WWII
Andrew Tennet’s father volunteered in February 1940, serving until March 1946. He was part of the original BEF and had to escape from occupied France.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Down Among The Gypsies
Using examples from her own family and other historical documents Dianne Sutton will tell us about these travelling people.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
History of British parks
The speaker is Paul Rabbitts who is a qualified landscape architect and is currently Head of Parks in Watford. He is a passionate advocate for public parks.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Embracing the Pastoral, Anne Halsey – Lady Cobham
Lady Cobham’s love for pastoralism included the Arcadian landscape celebrated in gardens and in the art of Poussin and his followers.
National Trust, Stowe/ Stowe House Preservation Trust
History of the Grand Junction and Union Canals
The Grand Junction Canal was built at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries and the Grand Union Canal came into being in1929.
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society
History of shoes: followers of fashion
A light-hearted talk by Rebecca Shawcross looking at some of the highs and lows of shoe fashions from the past to the modern day.
Hanslope and District Historical Society