A photographic odyssey: Shackleton’s Endurance expedition
Frank Hurley’s photographs are a visual narrative of an epic journey. The lecture aims to capture Hurley’s achievements as a photographer of the Antarctic.
Arts Society North Bucks
Speaker meetings
Life as an archaeologist: from Sussex to Sharnbrook (via South Wales, Saltburn, Sandy and Syria)
Mike Luke will talk about sites that he has worked on around England and Wales and also show photographs of foreign sites he has visited.
Olney Archaeological Society
Hayes Boatyard in Stony Stratford: An Inland Phenomenon
Speaker: Alison Leighton. Boats were built in Stony Stratford for fifty years with many exported across the world. £4.00 for non-members.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
Development of the police
The development of the police, from communities policing their own people in Anglo-Saxon England to the modern police service.
Bucks Family History Society
Northamptonshire Bannaventa: the southern extra mural & suburb area
Stephen Young will interpret the evidence observed in the surveys of the area to the south of the walled small town and posting station. Via Zoom.
CLASP
That’s Unusual!
Derek Blunt will take us on a tour of the quirky and unusual sights of Northamptonshire. His talk will ask the question “Why is that there?”
Roade Local History Society
I shall hope to try an officer and at least one corporal for cowardice
Speaker: Michael LoCicero, an independent scholar and Helion & Company commissioning editor, with a PhD in modern history at the University of Birmingham.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes
A Lecture Recital on Amazing Grace
Through Amazing Grace, Dr Martin Clarke will highlight some important points in the history of congregational singing in British churches.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Art for an afterlife: Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings in the British Museum
Speaker: Lucia Gahlin, Egyptologist. Olney Centre and via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society
Sir Stanley Spencer: an autobiography in pictures
Carolyn Leder will trace Spencer’s life through his painting. The murals at Sandham Memorial Chapel are one of the great achievements of C20 painting.
Arts Society North Bucks