Mother’s Just Planted Petunias
Forgotten comedy songs. Speaker: Kevin Varty. £4.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
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The World turned Upside Down – the experience of the British Civil Wars
Speaker: Stuart Orme, Curator at the Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon. He has been Director of Operations at Peterborough Cathedral,
Olney Archaeological Society
Studying the Three Rs
Speaker: Claire Moores. Knowing the type of education your ancestors received will give insights to the action they made later in life.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Programming the Harwell Dekatron Computer, aka The W.I.T.C.H.
TNMOC volunteer Jerry will explore the history and significance of this incredible machine, before explaining how the W.I.T.C.H. is programmed today.
National Museum of Computing
Small but Perfectly Formed: A History of Entrance Lodges
This talk by Dr Victoria Thomson has been cancelled.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Superstition and Religion in the Trenches
Focuses on the role of faith superstition during the war in enabling soldiers to have a sense of control over their destinies and to mitigate stress.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
The Fight for Suffrage
Dressed as a suffragette, Eve Bacon will tell the story, not only of the suffragettes but of the wider campaign for universal suffrage in Britain.
North Crawley Historical Society
Life & Death in the Countryside: Rural Northamptonshire in the Roman Period
The conquest of Britain and the creation of the new Roman province brought with it a new system of administration and governance.
Roade Local History Society
The Watermills and Landscape of the River Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire: Modelling the Impact of Watermilling in a Lowland Valley
The River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire has a long history of water milling, stretching back to at least the 10th century and possibly to the Roman period.
Olney Archaeological Society
Newport on fire
Don Hurst will be showing slides with the buildings that have been damaged or destroyed by fire through the years and some of the characters involved.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society