The Culworth Gang
David Hewitt will tell the story of the Culworth Gang, a disreputable bunch who terrorised locals and other villages in the 18th century.
Towcester & District Local History Society
Speaker meetings
Glass, Faience and Pottery at Amarna
Amarna is the contemporary name of the capital city of the pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti,.and is famous for dazzling decorative and fine arts.
Olney Archaeological Society
The Enumerator Strikes Back
This talk by Dave Annal will turn the spotlight onto the men and women who created the UK’s census returns since they first went to work on the census in 1841.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group)
Medieval Surgery
Steve and Eve Bacon explain the theory of the four humours that underpins medieval medicine and demonstrates the skill of the surgeon.
Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society
Leighton Buzzard and its environs during WW1
While researching World War One, members of the Leighton Buzzard Historical and Archaeological Society uncovered some surprising stories.
Bow Brickhill History Society
History of Warden Abbey
This excellent talk will take us through the history of the once-great abbey, from its foundation in 1135 to the present day.
Hanslope and District Historical Society
Away with the Fairies
1n 1917 two girls in Yorkshire took photographs of fairies. When the photographs came to light they came to the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Lavendon Village History Group
Coram and The Foundling Hospital
he story of the Foundation’s conception, development and subsequent move out of London before it comes back to London in a different form.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Amy, Wonderful Amy
Roy Smart will give a talk about the life of the famous aviator, Amy Johnson who became the first woman to fly solo to Australia.
Yardley Gobion Local History Group
“Oh yes it is”, “Oh no it isn’t”: Unresolved questions of authenticity
Disputes are erupting with such frequency that the most topical cases we look at by the time this lecture gets delivered may not yet have hit the headlines.
The Arts Society North Bucks