Down Among The Gypsies
Using examples from her own family and other historical documents Dianne Sutton will tell us about these travelling people.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Speaker meetings
History of British parks
The speaker is Paul Rabbitts who is a qualified landscape architect and is currently Head of Parks in Watford. He is a passionate advocate for public parks.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Embracing the Pastoral, Anne Halsey – Lady Cobham
Lady Cobham’s love for pastoralism included the Arcadian landscape celebrated in gardens and in the art of Poussin and his followers.
National Trust, Stowe/ Stowe House Preservation Trust
History of the Grand Junction and Union Canals
The Grand Junction Canal was built at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries and the Grand Union Canal came into being in1929.
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society
History of shoes: followers of fashion
A light-hearted talk by Rebecca Shawcross looking at some of the highs and lows of shoe fashions from the past to the modern day.
Hanslope and District Historical Society
The Madonnas of Pervyse
This talk tells the story of two women, Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker, who went to war in 1914 with the Flying Ambulance Corps.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
Grave Robbing
Steve Bacon has developed the character of Nehemiah Bacon, Resurrectionist. Discover how he benefits medicine and the sleazier side of this trade!
Lavendon History Group
Northampton’s First Police Force: Misgivings, Municipal Mission and Misdemeanours
In 1835 the worthies of Northampton’s Watch Committee were faced with the task of creating a Police Force. How successful were they?
Roade Local History Society
Our changing wildlife
Which British species are increasing or decreasing, and why? How have populations changed over the last 150 years? What of the future?
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Strange Beastly Buildings: Animal Housing in Historic Parks and Gardens
Paul Stamper will explore how the well-to-do have always had much to do with animals, and housing for them occurs in almost every historic park.
Olney Archaeological Society