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

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

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

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

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

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Guest Speaker: Andrew Hamilton Subject: The Christmas Truce of 1914 The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsidered their strategies… Read more

Guest Speaker: Tom Crook Topic: The Great Stink The Great Stink was an event in Central London during July and August 1858 in which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames. The problem had been mounting for some years, with an ageing and inadequate sewer system that emptied… Read more