Preserving the legacy of Tommy Flowers: uncovering lost histories
Celebrate the incredible life and work of Tommy Flowers, the visionary engineer behind the world’s first semi-programmable computer, Colossus.
National Museum of Computing
Speaker meetings
The Historic Gardener
Talk by Michael Brown on Cowper’s Gardens. He is a garden historian and horticulturalist. His book A Guide to Medieval Gardens was published in 2022.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Tales From the Flight Deck
Captain Jim Passmore, who worked for BA for 35 years, will recount some interesting, and sometimes tragic, aspects of aviation during his time.
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Local History Mysteries
Talk by Tom Jones. the Museum’s most entertaining Chair of Trustees in the summer house garden marquee. Spaces limited so please book in advance.
Cowper & Newton Museum
FamilySearch
Ian Waller examines the ways in which the FamilySearch website can be used by contributors to a worldwide tree to its best advantage.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Non-conformity for family historians
It can be difficult to find information about congregations since so many have flourished and faded since the seventeenth century,.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Mushrooms and fungi from around historic Woughton
How do we get more mushrooms? Woughton Heritage presents a talk by Justin Long. £2.00 entry. Light refreshments provided.
Woughton Heritage
Baked into History: How a Bakery Invented the First Business Computer
Explore the remarkable and often overlooked history of LEO, the world’s first computer designed specifically for commercial applications
National Museum of Computing
‘Phew, That Was Close!’
Air Marshal ‘Black’ Robertson presents an evening of enthralling stories from Suez and the Cold War to the Falklands and the Balkans
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Black Redcoats
This is a presentation of the extremely well researched and written book, Black Redcoats, by author, history enthusiast and speaker, Matthew Taylor.
Willen Village Heritage Association