Putting Your Ancestors in their Place
Speaker: Janet Few. A Zoom talk for BFHS members. Online membership costs £6.00 a year.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Speaker meetings
British Forces in Italy 1917-18
Speaker: Dale Hjort.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Bruegel: the seasons and the world
In 1565 Bruegel created a series of paintings for a dining room in Antwerp. The images changed the way we view the world through art.
Arts Society North Bucks
The Hunting Empress
Colin Rowe tells the story of the life and times of the reluctant Empress, Elizabeth of Austria (“Sisi”). Both live and by Zoom.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Crucifixion in the UK: excavations at a Roman roadside settlement in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
Speaker: David Ingham, FSA, Project Manager at Albion Archaeology, secretary to CBA. Olney Centre and Zoom. Preceded by the AGM.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Underground Railroad – Patterned Path to Freedom
Kay Goddard tells this amazing story of how these quilts and block patterns helped guide slaves to Canada.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
The Intelligence Factory Uncovered
In this free virtual talk Dr David Kenyon and Dr Thomas Cheetham will explore Bletchley Park’s latest and biggest exhibition, The Intelligence Factory.
Bletchley Park
Forenames and what they reveal about ancestors
Unusual forenames add to our knowledge about public feeling, and offer insight into the interests, values and character of our ancestors who choose them.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
The letters of Albert French
Roger Kitchen tells the story of his chance discovery of a bundle of letters sent by a young man of Wolverton in the First World War.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
A Different Kind of Digging – Archaeological Excavations at Stowe Landscape Gardens 2017 to 2022
Stephen Wass, operating as Polyolbion Archaeology. has worked on many National Trust property sites. Lecture in person and via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society