Chatsworth: its treasures, gardens and chatelaines
The Devonshire art collection at Chatsworth; the evolution of its garden and park landscape; and the life and work of its most famous Duchess.
Arts Society North Bucks
Speaker meetings
Sid James: Carry On and beyond
Marking the 50th anniversary of his last Carry On film, Robert Ross and Gemma Ross host this celebration of the beloved actor.
Discover Bucks Museum
St Firmin’s Rood Screen and the Church Roof
The screen is richly decorated, in panels, with Gothic arches of open screen-work. The panels were painted in the late 15th century.
North Crawley Historical Society
The U-Boat Campaign 1914-18
Dr Graham Kemp’s presentation introduces the essential differences between U- boats and submarines and examines the different kinds of U boats.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Following the Faultline, Gaziantep and Zeugma to Cavus Tepe
Speaker: Charles Baily, Cambridge classicist, archaeologist. Visitors to the talks who are not members, pay £4.00.
Olney Archaeological Society
Shipwreck on the Dorset Coast
The Halsewell was an East Indiaman that was wrecked at Peveril Point, Dorset in 1786 at the start of a voyage from London to Madras.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
MEOM: Ukraine’s Iron-Curtain computer, its pioneers and their legacy
MEOM, wgich was one of Europe’s first programmable, stored-program computers, was born in a rundown former monastery outside Kyiv.
National Museum of Computing
Samuel Pepys: the Hooke and Busby connections
The Association announces a new series of free lectures at St Mary Magdalene Church on the second Saturday of each month under the name 2S@3.
Willen Village Heritage Association
18th century English porcelain: Chelsea, Worcester, Bow and Derby
Jane Gardiner will look at the early experiments into porcelain making in England. Mrs Gardiner was Deputy Director of Sotheby’s, UK.
Arts Society North Bucks
Geophysical surveying in archaeology
John Walford’s talk will be on finds from the Caldecotte South site, and identifying archaeological sites and features using geophysical equipment,
Bow Brickhill History Society