Event Category: Meeting

  • June 2025 Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Bill King Topic: Women of Bletchley Park As the codebreaking process became more mechanised, and the volume of intercepts grew, many more staff were recruited from a wider range of sources. A significant proportion of these were recruited from the Women’s Services; the WRNS, the ATS and the WAAF. By 1945, 75% of the staff of Bletchley… Read more

  • May 2025 Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Melanie King Topic: Onions Cure Earache Read more

  • April 2025 Monthly Meeting

    AGM Guest Speaker: Jennifer Cowling Topic: Those Extraordinary things we say Read more

  • March 2025 Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Ben Nicholls Topic: The Devils Daughter and Me It turns out I’m descended from the Devil which explains why I’ve always been a bit of a maverick. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself anyway! Having discovered my own family history, it’s been very enlightening to find out that I’m in very… Read more

  • February 2025 Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Barbara Philips Topic: A Teenage Diary of TB in the 60's In 1959, days before Christmas, 13-year-old Barbara was taken into hospital after testing positive for tuberculosis.Crossley Sanatorium would, she was told, be her home for 10 weeks. But the weeks turned into months then into a year. The shy teenager had to… Read more

  • January 2025 Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Colin Wade Topic: Joys and Thrills of being an Author Read more

  • December Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Mark Davis                   Topic: Alice in Wonderland - Kings and Queens (an amusing talk) Note the change of speaker and subject. Read more

  • November Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Malc Lewis                     Music from the shows Read more

  • October Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Robin Burton                 Our heritage of  traditional songs. This talk looks at our English heritage of traditional song. It looks at the process which creates “traditional” song. It also looks at how we so nearly lost this heritage and how it was rescued from oblivion. Read more

  • September Monthly Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Dr Tony Hersh Subject: A Brief Tour of our Universe Giving an introduction to some of the key contents of our solar system and beyond, trying to put over the size of the universe and some of the mysteries still unsolved. Read more