Magic Lantern Show
With Kevin Varty, a member of the Magic Lantern Society. Followed by a short presentation of Potterspury Entertainment in Years Gone By.
Potterspury History Group
With Kevin Varty, a member of the Magic Lantern Society. Followed by a short presentation of Potterspury Entertainment in Years Gone By.
Potterspury History Group
The Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) was passed on 8 August 1914, four days after we entered the First World War. It gave the government wide-ranging powers.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Kevin Varty plays and discusses a number of TV theme tunes from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Non-members £4.00.
Yardley Gobion History Group
Kevin Varty’s magic lantern will illustrate how audiences were entertained back in the day. £4.00 for non-members.
Milton Keynes National Trust Association
Kevin Varty will show many of the images that the Victorians developed with which to amuse themselves.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
Talk – ‘The Christmas Truce – It’s Place in the Public Imagination’ – Stuart Macfarlan and ‘A Magic Lantern’s Eye View of a German Christmas’ – Kevin Varty.
Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Kevin Varty, a member of the Magic Lantern Society, will be coming to show his lantern show entitled ‘St Dunstan and the Cenotaph’.
Sherington Historical Society
Developments in the lanterns from their heyday in the 1870s up to their demise in the 1950s. The talk ends with a recreation of a Magic Lantern Show.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society
n 1917 two girls in Yorkshire took photographs of fairies. When the photographs came to light they caused a sensation. Speaker: Kevin Varty.
Olney Archaeological Society
Kevin Varty, a member of the Magic Lantern Society, will take us through the history of magic lanterns, which were invented in the 1650s.
Lavendon History Group
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