History of a concertina
Malcolm North’s talk will weave in references to Bletchley Park and ciphers, Wheatstone and other eminent scientists, motor racing, and even James Bond.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Speaker meetings
Sir John Schorne: The Rector Who Conjured the Devil into a Boot
A Zoom lecture. The speaker is Wayne Perkins, who worked on sites in France for INRAP and has excavated in the City of London and SE England.
Olney Archaeological Society
Brewers & Publicans
Simon Fowler will talk about how to research brewer and publican ancestors. A Zoom talk for BFHS members. Online membership costs £6.00 a year.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Fifty years of Archaeology in Northamptonshire
Andy Chapman will look back at some of the highlights from a 6000-year-old Neolithic enclosure to medieval villages and Northampton Castle.
Roade Local History Society
Before Bletchley Park: Codebreakers of the First World War
This is a free virtual event when Paul Gannon will talk about the little known achievements of British codebreakers between 1914 and 1918.
Bletchley Park
Bedford’s Highlanders – the Scottish “Invasion” of Bedford, August 1914
In August 1914 nearly 17,000 Scottish territorial soldiers arrived in Bedford. The impact of this mass billeting will be discussed by Richard Galley.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
In Black and White: 18th Century Silhouettes
Mike Rendell traces the history of the silhouette. Bring your own scissors for a post-talk hands-on session to create your very own silhouette.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Al Alcorn at TNMOC: from employee No. 3 to Atari’s Pong king
Join Atari’s legendary R&D chief in person or online as he talks about his journey to leading R&D at, briefly, the world’s largest computer games company.
The National Museum of Computing
The Baby Farmers
In Victorian and early Twentieth Century Britain the law made this business viable until it was eventually brought to an end.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Food for thought
Artists down the ages have chosen food as a motif in their works. Cindy Polemis will help unravel the meaning of these images.
Arts Society North Bucks