William Hogarth
This lecture describes how William Hogarth made his name by picturing the excesses of his age, Lucrezia Walker Is a lecturer at the National Gallery.
Arts Society North Bucks
Speaker meetings
20 GOTO 10 : Discovering Retro
Steven Goodwin dives into seven machines familiar to many of us, sharing what he has learned and opening our eyes just that little bit further.
National Museum of Computing
Queen of Codes – The Secret Life of Emily Anderson
Join Dr Jackie Uí Chionna to discover how she unravelled the forgotten story of Britain’s highest-ranking female Codebreaker.
Bletchley Park
Virginia Bradford
Andy Tennet will speak on Virginia Bradford, a silent movie actress who led a colourful life. Once her film career ended she moved to England.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Outside the Camp? The leper hospitals of Medieval England
Speaker: Professor Carol Rawcliffe of the University of East Anglia. Remote lecturer.
Olney Archaeological Society
Windmill Street (the street that never was)
A talk by Dianne Sutton. AGM.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Using Colossus with Russian teleprinter traffic
There is a story that two Colossi were sent to GCHQ to help with breaking Russian teleprinter traffic encrypted with captured SZ4n machines.
National Museum of Computing
A concise history of our Great British parks
What do we really know about them? their origins? did they really start in the Victorian period or do they go even further back?
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Y Stations – What, Where, When, Y
Uncover the story of the Y Stations, a clandestine network of wireless listening outposts across the UK and around the world.
Bletchley Park
Mind Mapping in relation to genealogical research
Mind Maps can be as simple or complex as you want. However, they help organise planning and thought processes by visually mapping the information.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society