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
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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
Roman Villa Landscapes of the South Midlands
This conference on the theme of Roman villas will explore their place in the landscape, with reference to recent studies of Roman rural settlement patterns.
Council for British Archaeology: South Midlands
MKHA AGM
Wednesday, 25th September 2019 at 7.00 for 7.30 pm
Milton Keynes Museum
Unlocking history – Climb Lord Cobham’s Pillar
140 steps take you up to the viewing point which gives you an inspiring insight into the design and scale of the landscape.
National Trust Stowe
Admiral Isorocu Yamamoto – Architect of Allied Victory?
Lecturer: Lt-Col Roger Laing, a retired Army officer, MOD. Yamamoto was the Japanese commander-in-chief during the early years of the Pacific War.
Olney Archaeological Society
Cropredy Bridge
The battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644 was indecisive, the repercussions proved a massive setback for the parliamentarian cause.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Visit to Sandham Memorial Chapel
The Trust will visit Stanley Spencer’s Sandham Memorial at Burghclere. The Chapel, now Grade II listed, was designed by Lionel Pearson in the 1920s.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust