Honing Our Detective Skills
Gwyneth Wilkie’s talk includes several case studies and bits on the potential benefits and pitfalls of certain types of record.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Speaker meetings
The Rutland Roman Villa Project
Speaker: Peter Liddle. An excavation has uncovered part of a mosaic with three panels each portraying a scene from the Siege of Troy.
Olney Archaeological Society
ICT 1301: Flossie’s 60th Anniversary Celebration
Attendees at this launch event for the Virtual Flossie will meet its creator, Martin Gillow. This event will be held in-person and online.
National Museum of Computing
Edgar Mobbs The life and death of a Northampton sporting icon
Graham McKechnie tells the story of the greatest Saints player of them all. In 1914 he formed a company of men who went with him to fight.
Roade Local History Society
The golden age of song
Pip Burley plays tribute to the lives, words and music of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, with piano demonstrations.
Arts Society North Bucks
ZX Spectrum at 40
Join Sir Clive Sinclair’s son, Crispin Sinclair, and two of the ZX Spectrum’s architects, Richard Altwasser and Dr Steve Vickers.
National Museum of Computing
Under-used resources for genealogical research
Sometimes sources which are not on the internet are overlooked. A Zoom talk for BFHS members. Online membership costs £6.00 a year.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
The Cost of War
Roy Larkin’s talk explores where the money went and the incredible variety of ways the Government and War Office spent huge amounts of money.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Building Blocks – Bletchley Park’s Expansion
Explore the challenge of keeping staff fed, housed, and working at high efficiency, how BP was organised, and how intelligence contributed to the war.
Bletchley Park
Behind The Map – Pictorial Tour of 19th C
Presented by Wendy Page. 19th Century stories of a South Northants village changing from an agricultural to industrial community.
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society