Local History Book Fair
Many hundreds of books for sale, some very rare. Local railways, canals and many aspects of social, church and industrial history.
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society
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D-Day
A talk and book signing by John Timmins, a local author of Anonymous Heroes about the events, planning and preparations for D-Day.
Old Gaol Museum, Buckingham
Yardley Gobion Festival Of Transport
Classic, custom and vintage vehicles. Raffle, prizes. Ice creams, food in The Coffee Pot Tavern, tea, coffee, cakes in the village hall. Free entry.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Sex, Drink and Death in the 17th Century
Exploring three aspects of seventeenth century-life in an exciting and visual presentation.Tim Healey is a popular speaker at historical societies.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Bletchley Park and D-Day
Dr David Kenyon will be hosting a lecture about his new book ‘Bletchley Park and D-Day’ which reveals how preparations had started at Bletchley in 1942.
Bletchley Park
Film and Sound Archives for Historians
Kathy Chater is a historian, writer and genealogist who will explain how to find records of ancestors walking, talking and maybe acting.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
‘Secrets and Scandal’ at West Wycombe Park
The National Trust’s specialist in garden history, Richard Wheeler will conduct us around the Dashwood family’s Buckinghamshire estate.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
The BBC and Glenn Miller in WW2 Bedford
The Co-Partners Hall in Bedford became the Miller band’s radio station and recording studio. Live broadcasts were conveyed to London for the BBC.
Lavendon History Group
Death and Burial of Richard III
The speaker is Peter Liddle, Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, Leicester University.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
An Icon of the Sky – The Spitfire and its people
After the original designer RJ Mitchell died, his successor Joe Smith made it faster and more powerful giving the RAF a critical edge over the Luftwaffe.
Olney & District Historical Society