Mushrooms and fungi from around historic Woughton
How do we get more mushrooms? Woughton Heritage presents a talk by Justin Long. £2.00 entry. Light refreshments provided.
Woughton Heritage
Speaker meetings
Baked into History: How a Bakery Invented the First Business Computer
Explore the remarkable and often overlooked history of LEO, the world’s first computer designed specifically for commercial applications
National Museum of Computing
‘Phew, That Was Close!’
Air Marshal ‘Black’ Robertson presents an evening of enthralling stories from Suez and the Cold War to the Falklands and the Balkans
Milton Keynes Aviation Society
Black Redcoats
This is a presentation of the extremely well researched and written book, Black Redcoats, by author, history enthusiast and speaker, Matthew Taylor.
Willen Village Heritage Association
Number Stations: 1950 to the Present
Number stations are shortwave transmissions which carry encrypted messages from foreign intelligence agencies to spies in the field .
Bletchley Park
From Victorians to Elizabethans – tracing our English Ancestors 1901 – 1952
This talk will demonstrate that there is plenty to be discovered about individuals and the communities in which they lived between 1901 and 1952.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Margaret Bondfield MP
From a poorly paid, overworked shop assistant Margaret Bondfield became a champion of women’s rights and a campaigner for world peace.
Roade Local History Society
August 1914 – The supply column
Follow the chaos of mobilising and then the advance and subsequent retreat once in France as the day to day problems had to be solved.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Cool Marble! The Essential Guide to Greek Sculpture
Rupert Willoughby elucidates some of the finest Ancient Greek artistic expressions, including the ‘Elgin’ marbles and the Venus de Milo,.
Arts Society North Bucks
Charles Rennie Macintosh and 78 Derngate, Northampton
78 Derngate was famously re-modelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916 for his client, Northampton model engineer, W.J Bassett-Lowke.
Towcester and District Local History Society