The Hunting Empress
Colin Rowe tells the story of the life and times of the reluctant Empress, Elizabeth of Austria (“Sisi”). Both live and by Zoom.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Speaker meetings
Crucifixion in the UK: excavations at a Roman roadside settlement in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
Speaker: David Ingham, FSA, Project Manager at Albion Archaeology, secretary to CBA. Olney Centre and Zoom. Preceded by the AGM.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Underground Railroad – Patterned Path to Freedom
Kay Goddard tells this amazing story of how these quilts and block patterns helped guide slaves to Canada.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
The Intelligence Factory Uncovered
In this free virtual talk Dr David Kenyon and Dr Thomas Cheetham will explore Bletchley Park’s latest and biggest exhibition, The Intelligence Factory.
Bletchley Park
Forenames and what they reveal about ancestors
Unusual forenames add to our knowledge about public feeling, and offer insight into the interests, values and character of our ancestors who choose them.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
The letters of Albert French
Roger Kitchen tells the story of his chance discovery of a bundle of letters sent by a young man of Wolverton in the First World War.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
A Different Kind of Digging – Archaeological Excavations at Stowe Landscape Gardens 2017 to 2022
Stephen Wass, operating as Polyolbion Archaeology. has worked on many National Trust property sites. Lecture in person and via Zoom.
Olney Archaeological Society
JMW Turner: airy visions painted with tinted steam
Turner’s obsession with light and the forces of nature is explored through his stunning use of colour in this talk by Val Woodgate.
Arts Society North Bucks
By their Dress Divided
You could determine whether a person was a Royalist or Parliamentarian by the clothes they wore. Puritans wore black and white – didn’t they?
Towcester and District Local History Society
Claydon, Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Speakers: Frank and Daphne Preece. Claydon House has been the seat of the Verney family since 1620.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association