Fitzroy
This is the extraordinary story of the young boy who grew up in Potterspury and went on to sail the Beagle for Darwin and invent weather forecasting.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Speaker meetings
Follies and Foibles
A talk by Adam Smith. Adam is a lecturer specialising in architectural history and the history of the English country house and estate.
Bow Brickhill History Society
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Matthew Lewis, Chair of the Richard III society. Matt is an author and historian whose work focuses on the Wars of the Roses and Richard III.
Olney Archaeological Society
Sailors and Dogs: Sandybed Lane Y Station
Join the GCHQ Departmental Historian, Dr David Abrutat, to discover the history of one of the oldest Y stations in the world.
Bletchley Park
From beech woods to bodgers
Chair making became an industry in the Chiltern Hills due to the nearby beech woods and transport to both London and Oxford.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Destroyers and Restorers
When the paintings were whitewashed over in the 1770s, they were thus protected from further damage for the next 200 years.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
Charity Records
Richard Holt identifies local charities using the survey carried out by the Charity Commission and Charity Commission records at the National Archives.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
The Greatest Story Ever Told …
We ask how this story would have been understood by the Faithful of the time, and also consider what the work means to us today.
Friends of St Guthlac’s Church, Passenham
Marian Rejewski
Discover the life and works of Marian Rejewski, the first to theorise the equations which would eventually lead to the breaking of the Enigma by the Allies.
Bletchley Park
India’s Great War
Adam Prime is a historian of the Indian Army with a PhD from the University of Leicester. His talk looks at India’s contribution to the First World War.>br />
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch