| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Elwyn Thomas
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| Group email: | HISTORY group |
| When: | Monthly on Thursday afternoons 1:30 pm-3:30 pm |
| 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.
WE MEET ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 1.30 - 3.30 IN THE ANNEXE
FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT GROUP LEADER ELWYN
Forthcoming Events:
THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND - THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER
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In 1906 the Liberals were returned to power in a landslide election. Eight years later Britain was on the brink of civil war and the last Liberal Government had barely 12 months to live.
How this situation came about, and the chief protagonists who were involved in these tumultuous years, are examined in Nigel Smith’s talk on the Strange Death of Liberal England
2026
- The Hanoverians - December
- OTHERS IN PIPELINE:
- Crime and Punishment in Britain c1000 - Present
- Captain Bligh and Mutiny on the Bounty
- The Rise and Fall of British Empire
- Thatcher v Heath and other deadly political rivalries
Previous sessions:
2026
- The English Civil War (Jim Meehan)
- The Cold War (Elwyn)
- What a difference an invention or two make (Kevin)
- Stalin - from choirboy to mass murderer (Elwyn)
- Prince Albert and the Victorian era (Ray)
- The History of Medicine (Chris)
- The First Day on the Somme (Nigel)
- The Rise of the Nazis (Elwyn)
- The Weimar Republic (Elwyn)
- The Russian Revolution (Elwyn)
2025
- Queen Victoria and John Brown (Ray)
- Battle of Waterloo (Nigel)
- Mary Queen of Scots (Susan)
- Elizabeth 1 (Elwyn)
- The Tudor inbetweeners - Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey and Bloody Mary (Elwyn)
- What a difference a spear or two makes (Kevin)
- Henry Vlll (Elwyn)
- SOE - Special Operations Executive (Elwyn)
- Henry Vll (Elwyn)
- Asquith (Ray)
- Clive of India and the East India Company - two separate sessions (Elwyn)
- Victorian Railways (Chris)
2024
- Dreyfus (Nigel)
- The massacre at Oradour / David Irving (Susan and Elwyn)
- The Princes in the Tower / Shakespeare’s histories (Ray)
- What a difference the Tudors made (Kevin)
- Wars of the Roses (Elwyn)
- Plantagenets (Elwyn)
- Norman Conquest (Elwyn)
- What a difference a Plague makes (Kevin)
- Otto von Bismarck (Ian)
- Wigan Dispensary, 1824-1873 (Chris)
- The Suez Crisis 1956 (Elwyn)
2023
- Queen Victoria (Ray)
- The Education Act 1944 (Ray)
- Churchill and Attlee (3 sessions) (Elwyn)
- The History of Pantomime (Ray)
2022
- The Origins of the Second World War (five sessions) (Elwyn)
