Modernist Architecture in Amersham
Alison Bailey looks at the impact of what we now know as modernism. Amersham has several buildings in this style. High & Over is the best known.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Speaker meetings
Kathleen Booth
Kathleen Booth was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first assembly language. Speaker: Roger Johnson.
National Museum of Computing
Highlights of the Vatican Museums. frescoes and Sistine Chapel
Rome tourist guide Stuart Harvey takes you on a virtual stroll through the corridors and rooms, ending our journey in the Sistine Chapel.
Arts Society North Bucks
The Battle of Edgcote
Edgcote was the first major battle fought in the second campaign of the Wars of the Roses. Graham Evans, from the Battlefields Society.
Towcester & District Local History Society
The making of Gone with the Wind
A Zoom lecture by Dr Colin Shindler., author of books on British and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film.
Olney Archaeological Society
Pictures in the Parlour
Kevin Varty’s magic lantern will illustrate how audiences were entertained back in the day. £4.00 for non-members.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
Volunteering at Northamptonshire Records Office
Lesley Armstrong will talk about her role as a volunteer, with examples of amazing, enlightening and peculiar items she has catalogued and seen.
Roade Local History Society
Annual General Meeting
The AGM will be followed by a presentation by Steve Young, CLASP Archaeological Director, on the 2023 fieldwork.
CLASP
The weird and wonderful Roman villa estate at Priors Hall, Corby
The speaker, Patrick Lambert, is Project Manager for Oxford Archaeology East. At The Olney Centre and via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society
The work of the Living Archive, Milton Keynes – looking back over 40 years
Roger Kitchen from MKLA will give an illustrated talk with audio and video extracts, including part of the video interview he recorded with Philip Smith.
Sherington Historical Society