Film and Sound Archives for Historians
Kathy Chater is a historian, writer and genealogist who will explain how to find records of ancestors walking, talking and maybe acting.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Speaker meetings
‘Secrets and Scandal’ at West Wycombe Park
The National Trust’s specialist in garden history, Richard Wheeler will conduct us around the Dashwood family’s Buckinghamshire estate.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
The BBC and Glenn Miller in WW2 Bedford
The Co-Partners Hall in Bedford became the Miller band’s radio station and recording studio. Live broadcasts were conveyed to London for the BBC.
Lavendon History Group
Death and Burial of Richard III
The speaker is Peter Liddle, Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, Leicester University.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
An Icon of the Sky – The Spitfire and its people
After the original designer RJ Mitchell died, his successor Joe Smith made it faster and more powerful giving the RAF a critical edge over the Luftwaffe.
Olney & District Historical Society
‘Roade Remembered’ and ‘Pianoforte Supplies Ltd’
Ron Johnson will be displaying a slideshow of historic images, many of which you may have never seen, gleaned from the above two Facebook groups.
Roade Local History Society
Tut’s Tat
A talk about Egyptomania and the influence on western arts following the opening up of Egypt by Napoleon and by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Olney Archaeological Society
Luxurious Locomotion
Colin Rowe explains the development and history of luxurious trains from the days of George Pullman to the current Venice Simplon Orient Express.
Hanslope & District Historical Society
Sweet Swan of Avon
In this lecture we explore what is known about Shakespeare’s life in the turbulent and often dangerous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England,
The Arts Society North Bucks
The Killing of the Iron Twelve
Hedley Malloch will detail how, in 1915, the Germans shot 11 British soldiers who had been lost during the retreat to the Marne, and one Frenchman.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch