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WE MEET ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH 2PM - 4.00PM IN THE MAIN HALL

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Forthcoming events

PRINCE ALBERT

- WEDNESDAY JUNE 10TH

A VICTORIAN POTPOURRI 

The History group meets again on Wednesday 10th June when Ray will present a Victorian potpourri.

This will be the concluding talk of three. Having looked at Victoria and then John Brown, this talk will look principally (see what I did there!) at Albert but will also consider various social aspects of Victorian life. We will finish by looking at Princess Beatrice, the youngest child of Victoria and Albert. She was the keeper of Victoria’s legacy.

An interesting fact about Beatrice is that she would see (not literally) the D-Day landings.
Do come along. The Village Hall at 2.00p.m.You might even get a Victoria sponge!

2026

• The Rise of Stalin: From Choirboy to Mass Murderer - July
• What a difference an invention makes - August
• The Cold War - September
• Crime and punishment in Britain - October
• The Strange Death of Liberal England - November
• The Hanoverians - December
• OTHERS:
• Introduction to Rise and Fall of British Empire
• Thatcher v Heath
• Pistols at Dawn - deadly political rivalry
• David Lloyd George
• Mutiny on the Bounty and The Wager
• The formation of the RAF

Previous sessions:

2026

• 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)