Cursus Monuments of Buckinghamshire and the Great Ouse Valley
A cursus is an elongated rectilinear earthwork enclosure whose length is over 250m and whose long axis is more than ten times the short axis.
Olney Archaeological Society
Speaker meetings
The world’s greatest paintings: 200 years at the National Gallery
2024 marks the bicentenary of the National Gallery. Today the collection amounts to 2,300 works spanning the major traditions of Western European painting.
Arts Society North Bucks
Bow Street Runners
Watch out, watch out the Bow Street Runners are about! Steve Bacon will talk about why were they formed and what were their powers.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Fitzroy
This is the extraordinary story of the young boy who grew up in Potterspury and went on to sail the Beagle for Darwin and invent weather forecasting.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Follies and Foibles
A talk by Adam Smith. Adam is a lecturer specialising in architectural history and the history of the English country house and estate.
Bow Brickhill History Society
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Matthew Lewis, Chair of the Richard III society. Matt is an author and historian whose work focuses on the Wars of the Roses and Richard III.
Olney Archaeological Society
Sailors and Dogs: Sandybed Lane Y Station
Join the GCHQ Departmental Historian, Dr David Abrutat, to discover the history of one of the oldest Y stations in the world.
Bletchley Park
From beech woods to bodgers
Chair making became an industry in the Chiltern Hills due to the nearby beech woods and transport to both London and Oxford.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Destroyers and Restorers
When the paintings were whitewashed over in the 1770s, they were thus protected from further damage for the next 200 years.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
Charity Records
Richard Holt identifies local charities using the survey carried out by the Charity Commission and Charity Commission records at the National Archives.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society