Status: | Active, open to new members |
Leader: |
Elwyn Thomas
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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)