Event Category: Meeting

  • November 2025 meeting

    Guest Speaker: Gillian Kane Subject: It's a Girl's Life in the Army Read more

  • October 2025 meeting

    Guest Speaker: Malc Lewis Subject: Musical Life of Birmingham Read more

  • September 2025 Meeting

    Speaker: Christine Green Subject: Working with Auntie (BBC) Read more

  • August 2025 Meeting

    Speaker: Jeff Evans Subject: The Golden Age of Children’s Television Read more

  • July 2025 Meeting

    Guest Speaker: Gordon Rogers Subject: The Sky at Night with a Laugh Read more

  • 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