Pictures in the Parlour
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
Optical Illusions
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
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
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
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
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
An Evening with a Magic Lantern
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
Sex, Drugs and Tapeworms
Kevin Varty will use contemporary adverts to illustrate cures for all kinds of illnesses – a light-hearted look at Victorian consumerism.
Wolverton & District Archaeological and Historical Society
Lost language of headstones
In this illustrated talk Kevin Varty explores the sometimes hidden meanings of the symbols which are often carved into headstones.
Newport Pagnell 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