‘Roade Remembered’ and ‘Pianoforte Supplies Ltd’
Ron Johnson will be displaying a slideshow of historic images, many of which you may have never seen, gleaned from the above two Facebook groups.
Roade Local History Society
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Tut’s Tat
A talk about Egyptomania and the influence on western arts following the opening up of Egypt by Napoleon and by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Olney Archaeological Society
Headmaster’s Tour of Stowe
Take a specialist tour with Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, current headmaster of Stowe House and learn about the history of the school.
Stowe House
Luxurious Locomotion
Colin Rowe explains the development and history of luxurious trains from the days of George Pullman to the current Venice Simplon Orient Express.
Hanslope & District Historical Society
Sweet Swan of Avon
In this lecture we explore what is known about Shakespeare’s life in the turbulent and often dangerous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England,
The Arts Society North Bucks
The Killing of the Iron Twelve
Hedley Malloch will detail how, in 1915, the Germans shot 11 British soldiers who had been lost during the retreat to the Marne, and one Frenchman.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Breaks in the Circuit: From 17th century slave trade to 21st century Milton Keynes
Magnus John has published a novel, Breaks in the Circuit, set in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery, a process which took over 40 years.
Grafton Regis Historians
Tudor and Stuart Glimpses
Wendy Page will be presenting an illustrated talk covering some of the earliest clues that we have to life in Cosgrove and Furtho.
Cosgrove and Furtho History Talks
Northampton in the 1970s – where it all went wrong
Richard Deacon will take us into the 1970s with photographs to show the dramatic changes to our county town in that decade.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Roman Medicine
We present artefacts and replicas which give insight into how the Romans thought the body worked and what they did to treat disease and injury.
Olney Archaeological Society