Magic Lantern Show

31 December 2023 MKHA Webmaster 0

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

Blame it on Dora

16 December 2023 MKHA Webmaster 0

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

Pictures in the Parlour

2 October 2023 MKHA Webmaster 0

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

Optical Illusions

21 February 2023 MKHA Webmaster 0

Kevin Varty will show many of the images that the Victorians developed with which to amuse themselves.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society

A Great War Christmas

16 November 2022 MKHA Webmaster 0

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)

St Dunstan and the Cenotaph

11 January 2020 MKHA Webmaster 0

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

Pictures in the Parlour

21 December 2019 MKHA Webmaster 0

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

Away with the Fairies

7 December 2019 MKHA Webmaster 0

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