The Greyhound – The Hour I First Believed
Join a virtual talk about the ship, the ‘Greyhound’, and the journey which brought John Newton back to England from Sierra Leone.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Speaker meetings
Roade at war!
Colin Haddon’s talk is about the Northamptonshire Home Guard. He will be bringing along fellow members who will be in full uniform and will perform drills.
Roade Local History Society
Bletchley Park presents: Harold Liberty
Harold Liberty will give a talk on his book, ‘The Forgotten Giant of Bletchley Park’, an extensive account of Brigadier John Tiltman. £5.00 plus admission.
Bletchley Park
The Welsh Walter Mitty
Marietta Crichton Stuart talks about Percy Shuttlewood, who served in her grandfather’s battalion during the Great War.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Recovering Artefacts from the “Halsewell”
The Halsewell was an East Indiaman that was wrecked at Peveril Point, Dorset in 1786 at the start of a voyage from London to Madras.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
A Lost Spa Garden – Dorton Spa Buckinghamshire
The pump room and lodge/refreshment room were the only buildings, both now gone. However, a boating lake and some planting were installed.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
L.T.C. Rolt, Pioneer of Canal and Railway Preservation
Tom Rolt helped found the IWA and set up the first organisation to save and run a railway with a mainly volunteer workforce.
Olney Archaeological Society
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Mike Chapman is a speaker from the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
In Search of Artists’ Gardens in Buckinghamshire
The talk follows a road trip the speaker, Claire de Carle, embarked on in the autumn of 2020 with Clare Butler.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
War artists, spies and the art of deception
Nicholas Reed will tell us about famous and lesser-known war artists like Ravilious and Tomas Harris, and intriguing tales of double-agents.
Arts Society North Bucks