Number Stations: 1950 to the Present
Number stations are shortwave transmissions which carry encrypted messages from foreign intelligence agencies to spies in the field .
Bletchley Park
Speaker meetings
From Victorians to Elizabethans – tracing our English Ancestors 1901 – 1952
This talk will demonstrate that there is plenty to be discovered about individuals and the communities in which they lived between 1901 and 1952.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Margaret Bondfield MP
From a poorly paid, overworked shop assistant Margaret Bondfield became a champion of women’s rights and a campaigner for world peace.
Roade Local History Society
August 1914 – The supply column
Follow the chaos of mobilising and then the advance and subsequent retreat once in France as the day to day problems had to be solved.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Cool Marble! The Essential Guide to Greek Sculpture
Rupert Willoughby elucidates some of the finest Ancient Greek artistic expressions, including the ‘Elgin’ marbles and the Venus de Milo,.
Arts Society North Bucks
Charles Rennie Macintosh and 78 Derngate, Northampton
78 Derngate was famously re-modelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916 for his client, Northampton model engineer, W.J Bassett-Lowke.
Towcester and District Local History Society
The History, Heritage and Engineering Excellence of Rolls-Royce
During his lecture, Neil will summarise the major events in the design, development and manufacture of Rolls-Royce aero engines and applications.
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is currently responsible for the care of war dead at over 23,000 separate burial sites.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
Northamptonshire’s conscientious objectors WW1
WW1 was the first time compulsory military conscription had been introduced in Britain and Tribunals were set up in 1916 to hear appeals for exemption.
Yardley Gobion History Group
The English Parish Church is the greatest free show on earth
A talk by Lionel Wall an enthusiastic church crawler with an acclaimed website Great English Churches. Non-members £3.00.
Bow Brickhill History Society