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Mawdesley Villages

History

Status:Active, open to new members
Leader:
Elwyn Thomas
Group email: History group
When: on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
On the 2nd Wednesday of the month
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall

We don't take ourselves too seriously. We encourage healthy debate and a questioning attitude. All sorts of subjects are considered - and the half time tea break with a quick chat is a MUST.

PLEASE CONTACT ELWYN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION BY CLICKING THE EMAIL LINK

Forthcoming events:

Wednesday 9th October: Three separate topics in one session!

The Martyred Village of Oradour. A Holocaust denier and the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

Presenter Susan Lunt gives a poignant and insightful narrative of the tiny village of Oradour sur Glane in Vichy France which was destroyed by the Nazis just before D-Day.

This is followed after the break by Elwyn who takes a look at an infamous Holocaust denier David Irving and then an unusual account of the Killing Fields of Cambodia which witness a compelling act of redemption.

Much food for thought and debate.

There are a number of other projects in the pipeline, including:

  • Tudor economic history
  • The Dreyfus Affair
  • Robert Stephenson
  • The Russian Revolution
  • The East India Company
  • The rise and fall of the British Empire
  • Pistols at Dawn - deadly political rivalry

Previous sessions:

2024

  • The Princes in the Tower
  • Wars of the Roses
  • Plantagenets
  • Norman Conquest
  • What a difference a Plague makes
  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Wigan Dispensary, 1824-1873
  • The Suez Crisis 1956

2023

  • Queen Victoria
  • The Education Act 1944
  • Churchill and Attlee (3 sessions)
  • The History of Pantomime

2022

  • The Origins of the Second World War (five sessions)