Hooke, Busby and the Roots of Scientific Genius
One of the first acts of Dr Richard Busby was to demolish the existing church and commission his former pupil Robert Hooke to replace it.
Willen Village Heritage Association
Speaker meetings
Silverstone: the village, RAF station and Circuit
Its past shows a small village which once housed a Benedictine Priory, Royal Hunting Lodge, twenty-two woodyards, a RAF Wellington bomber training station.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Finding my Grandad’s Global Family
At the age of 24 Ben Nicholls discovered that his grandfather had had four children with three different women over a period of 40 years,
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Heroes & Ghosts – Wing Commander Harold Blackburn MC AFC – how scandal and shame affect genealogy
Wing Commander Harold Blackburn MC AFC was a British aviation pioneer who piloted the first scheduled passenger-carrying flights in Great Britain.
Bow Brickhill History Society
The Great Seal Bug: The Full History
Join a second showing of The Thing, a film that uncovers the complete history of one of history’s most astonishing espionage incidents.
National Museum of Computing
Bombing of Saunderton Railway Station
In this Zoom online talk Roger Young tells the story of the night two bombs were planted by Suffragettes at Saunderton Railway Station.
Bucks Family History Society
Deene Park
Deene Park, the seat of the Brudenell family since 1514, is a country manor located 5 miles north-east of Corby. The hall s a Grade I listed building.
Roade Local History Society
Edwin Lutyens, Architect – Potterspury, Passenham and beyond
Lutyens designed over 700 buildings and monuments including the Cenotaph in Whitehall. He designed the Potterspury Lodge gatehouse.
Potterspury History Group
The men from HMS India – internment in Norway in WW1
Rebecca Clarke. gives an account of the fate of HMS India and the crew members who were interned in Norway during World War One.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Sgt Cyril Stapleton
Clive Stapleton narrates Cyril’s journey, starting from his childhood as the eldest in a Newport Pagnell family during the 1930s.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society