Small but Perfectly Formed: A History of the Entrance Lodge
Dr Victoria Thomson’s talk explores the history and characteristics of the entrance lodge, with a particular focus on those in Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Speaker meetings
Forgotten Comedy Records – Mad Passionate Love
Kevin Varty will join us once gain to take us on a nostalgic look at forgotten comedy records of the 50s and 60s, revisiting the days of 7 in singles.
Yardley Gobion History Group
The invention of photography and its impact on early modern painting
Dr Caroline Levisse will consider how photography participated in changing the face of painting in the second half of the 19th century.
Arts Society North Bucks
Forgotten Comedy Records – Mad Passionate Love
Speaker: Kevin Varty. Kevin Varty will take us on a nostalgic look at forgotten comedy records.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Roman Kings and Gentlemen and their Villas: Fishbourne and Bignor contrasted
Speaker: Oliver Gilkes, Oliver is an archaeologist, researcher specialising in the Mediterranean and United Kingdom, and tour leader.
Olney Archaeological Society
My Roman Britain
Paddy Lambert will be the live guest speaker. He is Project Manager for Oxford Archaeology East. This talk will not be available via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society
Allied intervention in Northern Russia during WW1
In 1919 Britain still has men fighting in North Russia. For these men, the war is not over. A relief force is needed, the North Russia Relief Force.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Christmas in Bach’s Leipzig – the Christmas Oratorio of 1734/1735
Bach brings the Christmas story alive in his Weihnachtsoratorium or Christmas Oratorio, written for Lutheran congregations in 1730s Leipzig.
Arts Society North Bucks
Christmas Past in Northampton
The first Christmas lights were switched on in Northampton in 1959 and The Salon de Danse held Christmas eve dance with two bands.
Roade Local History Society
A Medieval Christmas
From this talk presented in 14th Century clothing we shall learn about the Christmas traditions, myths and plants of the medieval period.
Towcester and District Local History Society