Theatre In Northampton
Featuring the town’s first know theatre in a barn, the theatre across the road where Charlie Chaplin worked to the four theatres in one at the Derngate.
Roade Local History Society
Speaker meetings
The Great War Miscellany
This seminar features an excellent line-up of speakers on a variety of topics. Tickets £30.00. Buffet lunch included, plus tea, coffee and biscuits.
Milton Keynes Western Front Association
English Coaching Inns
Julian Hunt will take us through the recognisable architectural features of the coaching inns. They were usually quite grand with an obvious coach entrance.
North Crawley Historical Society
How to be a King
A look at what we think we know about medieval kingship from Hastings to Bosworth which comes to some unexpected and surprising conclusions.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The Decline of the Great Estates
From the 1870s landowners faced a succession of challenges and calamities: agricultural depression and falling rents, the Great War and death duties.
Olney Archaeological Society
Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
This lecture by James Bolton focuses on Vita Sackville-West and the extraordinary garden she created at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
Arts Society North Bucks
The Washingtons and the Wool Trade
A follow-up from Martin Sirot-Smith’s talk in April. This time he will tell of the Washington family’s connection with the wool trade.
Towcester and District Local History Society
The Fight for Suffrage
Dressed as a suffragette, Eve Bacon will tell the story, not only of the suffragettes but of the wider campaign for universal suffrage in Britain.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Walter Tull
Graham McKechnie presents a talk about Walter Tull, the first black footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in the UK.
Yardley Gobion History Group
The Bedford Estate brick wall
Dr Gerard Lynch, Master Brickmason, will give a talk on the rebuilt section of the Bedford Estate brick wall from Ridgmont to Husborne Crawley.
Bow Brickhill History Society