Forging Ahead, The Secrets of Operation Bernhard
Steve Dimmer tells the story of Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plan to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged notes.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Speaker meetings
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes’s first book, Kindred, is a critically acclaimed bestseller. She has a reputation for public communication including for BBC radio.
Olney Archaeological Society
Wild, Wild Women
How did Mary Reade and Anne Bonny become pirates? How did Mary Frith become Cut-Purse Moll? Why was Katherine Ferrers known as the Wicked Lady?
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Crypto Machines
Professor Chris Christensen will describe the cipher machines designated as JADE and explore some of the ideas used by the US Navy in their attack on JADE.
The National Museum of Computing
Horton Hall: one of Northamptonshire’s lost country houses
A talk by Maureen Williams, who has been researching the history of the Horton estate and published a book about it in 2019.
Roade Local History Society
Mrs Hurst Dancing
Speaker: Don Hurst. £3.00 for non-members.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
The expansion and replanning of England’s major cathedrals and churches
The speaker is Dr Frank Woodman, FSA, architectural historian and former Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education academic director.
Olney Archaeological Society
On the Beat
Terence Cox tells of policing on the home front during the Great War. At Roman Park Resident’s Club, Bancroft Park, Milton Keynes.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
From Cambridge to the Square Kilometre Array: Computers and Radio Astronomy
Verity Allen will discuss the demands that radio astronomy places on computing, EDSAC, EDSAC 2 and TITAN, and those who programmed these systems.
The National Museum of Computing
The architecture of the Raj is remarkable
An examination of evolving attitudes towards the British Empire and its buildings, a tour iof colonial buildings and the restoration of Mumbai’s university.
Arts Society North Bucks