The Yorkist Surgeon: The Life of William Holles
Speaker: Stuart Orme, Historian, Curator at The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon. Remote lecturer. £4.00 visitors.
Olney Archaeological Society
Speaker meetings
Edwin Lutyens, Architect, Potterspury, Passenham and beyond
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) designed the Potterspury Lodge gatehouse and was involved in the extension to Potterspury Lodge.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farmers
Learn the sad fate of some illegitimate babies in Victorian and early 20th century Britain how the business was eventually brought to an end.
North Crawley Historical Society
“Bradle”, Wolverton and Stony
Colin Kightley is giving a talk on his family history through the north Buckinghamshire towns of Bradwell, Wolverton and Stony Stratford.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Murder and Mystery
Speaker: Kevin Varty. Non-members are charged £5.00 per event. Doors open 30 minutes before the talks start.
Potterspury History Group
The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia
Tim Richardson will describe the evolution of the English landscape garden across the 18th century by means of ten exemplary gardens.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Untangling a complex web: The Atherstone hat trade and enslaved people
Atherstone is well known for its 300-year role in the manufacture and sale of hats. The last hat factory closed its doors in 1999.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Living and Working in Antarctica
Monica Grady has curated the UK’s national collection of meteorites and has collected meteorites in Antarctica.
Olney Archaeological Society
A possible Iron Age cremation burial from the Midlands and its context
Cremation Burial C160, discovered near a Roman road in 2023, sheds light on mixed-use cemeteries and Iron Age burial practice at this time.
CLASP
The German Raid on Scarborough
The bombardments resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch