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. During the Spring, Summer and Autumn, we meet every month on the last Thursday of the month in the Friends' Meeting House in Cowl Street.
To show the variety of our interests, here is our programme for the 2025-6 season just completed. Click on the pictures for a detailed report of each talk.
We have already arranged our talks in 2027 and the programme is given here
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
