Victorian and Early 20th C Baby Farming
The speaker, Eve Bacon, will explain how the law made this darkest of businesses viable and how it was eventually brought to an end.
Bucks Family History Society
Speaker meetings
The Monastic Heritage of Old Warden Parish Church
Henry VIII insisted on demolishing Warden Abbey, but the parish church escaped virtually unscathed. Non members £3.00. All welcome.
Bow Brickhill History Society
Dorset’s hillfort people : In search of the Durotriges
Speaker: Dr Martin Papworth, National Trust Archaeologist. Via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Sculptures at Stowe
Gillian Mason has been very involved in the restoration and replacement of the sculptures at Stowe. Many of the original statues were sold.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Organising Your Research and Findings
Speaker: Emma Cox. How many times have you missed that vital clue because the information was not organised properly? A Zoom talk for BFHS members.
Bucks Family History Society
Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC)
Ben Donnelly-Symes’s Zoom talk will cover the first year of the ARC based at the Chester House Estate in Irchester being open. Donation of £5.00 welcome.
CLASP
Reluctant Abolitionist? Reopening the Case of John Newton and the Liverpool Slave Trade
Professor John Coffey from the University of Leicester explores whether John Newton might be the ‘Anonymous’ speaking against the slave trade in 1762.
Cowper & Newton Museum
Understanding antiques
Mark Hill will take a look at what current and future generations of collectors are buying, why they are buying it and how they are displaying it.
Arts Society North Bucks
Jig-a-jig Tommy
Speaker: Bruce Cherry. Bruce Cherry is an author, tour guide and former university lecturer with a PhD in military history.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Alfred Cockerill: Northampton’s Forgotten Philanthropist
When speaker Bob Farey started researching Alfred Cockerill, the more he discovered the more he wanted to know.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society