Talks
The Society is proud of the range and interest of its lectures, so don't miss out!
Everyone is welcome to come - you don't need to be a member of the Society!
There is a small charge - £3:00 for Society members and £5:00 for non-members - which includes the inevitable cup of tea or coffee.
Here is our programme for the forthcoming 2025-6 season. As ever, we will meet every month on the last Thursday (except December) in the Friends' Meeting House in Cowl Street.
25 September 2025 7:30pm
Justin Newland “The Limits of Empire – How Drake’s Circumnavigation changed History”
30 October 2025 7:30pm
Max Keen “Pirates! The Fact and the Fiction”
27 November 2025 7:30pm
Robin Goldsmith “The formation of the Royal Flying Corps”
11 December 2025 7:30pm
Members’ lunchtime get-together in the Red Lion
29 January 2026 7:30pm
Ray Sturdy “Remembering the Swinging 60s: ……”
26 February 2026 7:30pm
Alan Godfrey “All roads lead to Rome:
Communications by road in Roman England”
26 March 2026 7:30pm
Richard Churchley “Off to the workhouse:
The poor are always with us"
30 April 2026 7:45pm Following our AGM
Gillian White “Mary Queen of Scots”
28 May 2026 7:30pm
Galen Bartholomew “Auschwitz”
25 June 2026 7:30pm
John Reid "Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes
The Golden Age of British Comics, 1950-1975
30 July 2026 7:30pm
From Time to Time “A Day in the Life of a Victorian Lady”
27 August 2026 7:30pm
Vanessa Morgan “Dear Mother... A Tragedy of 1918”
24 September 2026 7:30pm
Robin Hill “The Working Countryside - The Rural Past of the West Midlands
As Captured by the Cameras of the Time”
29 October 2026 7:30pm
Max Keen “Clive of India”
Image courtesy of the Victorian Web
