The art of Art Deco
The development of the style and a look at specific examples of objets d’arts, including silver, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, clocks and architecture.
Arts Society North Bucks
Speaker meetings
An American’s View of Northamptonshire
Gary Shaeffer’s talk takes the form of a guided tour using slides and showing many of the beautiful and historic places in the County.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Electra boat
Electra is the new, fully electric community canal boat for Milton Keynes, run by volunteers from the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The Aztec Paradox
The speaker is Dr Nicholas James, Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, author of the book Aztecs and Maya.
Olney Archaeological Society
Alan Turing – Accidental Codebreaker?
Join a free virtual event where the presenters, Erica Munro and David Kenyon, will explore Turing’s time with the Government Code and Cypher School.
Bletchley Park
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
In this Zoom talk Michael Brown will be examining the winter season through the ages and will even provide a little music of the time.
Olney Archaeological Society
A Great War Christmas
Talk – ‘The Christmas Truce – It’s Place in the Public Imagination’ – Stuart Macfarlan and ‘A Magic Lantern’s Eye View of a German Christmas’ – Kevin Varty.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
The history of stained glass
The speaker is Mike Caddy of Vitreus Art. The talk will be followed by Christmas refreshments.
Towcester and Disctrict Local History Society
Lamport Hall: History and Gardens
Lamport Hall was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976. Sir Charles Isham is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the UK.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
The Christmas story in Renaissance art
Dr Paula Nuttall’s talk tells the Christmas story through well-loved paintings and illuminated manuscripts by Italian and Flemish artists.
Arts Society North Bucks