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
Speaker meetings
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
The Greatest Story Ever Told …
We ask how this story would have been understood by the Faithful of the time, and also consider what the work means to us today.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
Marian Rejewski
Discover the life and works of Marian Rejewski, the first to theorise the equations which would eventually lead to the breaking of the Enigma by the Allies.
Bletchley Park
India’s Great War
Adam Prime is a historian of the Indian Army with a PhD from the University of Leicester. His talk looks at India’s contribution to the First World War.>br />
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
The Lord of the Manor
We will examine the life and character of the man and discuss the influence of those who helped him realise his ‘beautification’ of St Guthlac’s.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
40 years of The Living Archive Milton Keynes
With LAMK’s co founder and Chair, Roger Kitchen. What’s a living archive? Why does it matter in a “new city”? Everybody has a story to- tell.
Willen Village Heritage Association
The Beauty of Holiness
Between 1626 and 1628 Passenham Church was turned into a model for an elite religious movement inspired by the new King, Charles I.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
The history of the CWGC and its work today
Terry Whenham’s presentation starts with how the Commission began, its work during the First and Second World Wars and concludes with its work today.
Yardley Gobion History Group