The Great War Miscellany
This seminar features an excellent line-up of speakers on a variety of topics. Tickets £30.00. Buffet lunch included, plus tea, coffee and biscuits.
Milton Keynes Western Front Association
Saturday, 19th October 2024
Speaker meetings
English Coaching Inns
Julian Hunt will take us through the recognisable architectural features of the coaching inns. They were usually quite grand with an obvious coach entrance.
North Crawley Historical Society
Friday, 18th October 2024
How to be a King
A look at what we think we know about medieval kingship from Hastings to Bosworth which comes to some unexpected and surprising conclusions.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Tuesday, 15th October 2024
The Decline of the Great Estates
From the 1870s landowners faced a succession of challenges and calamities: agricultural depression and falling rents, the Great War and death duties.
Olney Archaeological Society
Tuesday, 15th October 2024
Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
This lecture by James Bolton focuses on Vita Sackville-West and the extraordinary garden she created at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
Arts Society North Bucks
Thursday, 10th October 2024
The Washingtons and the Wool Trade
A follow-up from Martin Sirot-Smith’s talk in April. This time he will tell of the Washington family’s connection with the wool trade.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Wednesday, 9th October 2024
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.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Walter Tull
Graham McKechnie presents a talk about Walter Tull, the first black footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in the UK.
Yardley Gobion History Group
The Bedford Estate brick wall
Dr Gerard Lynch, Master Brickmason, will give a talk on the rebuilt section of the Bedford Estate brick wall from Ridgmont to Husborne Crawley.
Bow Brickhill History Society
A Date with the Cerne Abbas Giant with Uffington and Wilmington
The two major human hill figures in England are the Cerne Giant and the Long Man of Wilmington. The Uffington White Horse is perhaps over 3,000 years old.
Olney Archaeological Society