Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farmers
Learn the sad fate of some illegitimate babies in Victorian and early 20th century Britain how the business was eventually brought to an end.
North Crawley Historical Society
Friday, 30th January 2026
Speaker meetings
“Bradle”, Wolverton and Stony
Colin Kightley is giving a talk on his family history through the north Buckinghamshire towns of Bradwell, Wolverton and Stony Stratford.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Friday, 30th January 2026
Murder and Mystery
Speaker: Kevin Varty. Non-members are charged £5.00 per event. Doors open 30 minutes before the talks start.
Potterspury History Group
The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia
Tim Richardson will describe the evolution of the English landscape garden across the 18th century by means of ten exemplary gardens.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Untangling a complex web: The Atherstone hat trade and enslaved people
Atherstone is well known for its 300-year role in the manufacture and sale of hats. The last hat factory closed its doors in 1999.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Living and Working in Antarctica
Monica Grady has curated the UK’s national collection of meteorites and has collected meteorites in Antarctica.
Olney Archaeological Society
A possible Iron Age cremation burial from the Midlands and its context
Cremation Burial C160, discovered near a Roman road in 2023, sheds light on mixed-use cemeteries and Iron Age burial practice at this time.
CLASP
The German Raid on Scarborough
The bombardments resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Keeping Faith at the Front during the First World War
Looking at the work these men did in dreadful conditions and who went far beyond their “calling” to comfort, help and assist the dying and wounded.
Towcester and District Local History Society
RAF Eagle Squadrons
Renowned military historian Aldon Ferguson shares details of who and why they volunteered, their training and operational flying and mutual hate of Nazis.>br />
Milton Keynes Aviation Society