| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Elwyn Thomas
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| Group email: | HISTORY group |
| When: | Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
| Venue: | Mawdesley Village Hall |
Coffee break is back - and session only costs £2
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 WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH 2PM - 4.00PM IN THE MAIN HALL
FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT GROUP LEADER ELWYN
THE COLD WAR
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH
The Cold War was the period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and the communist Eastern Bloc
We have all lived through it, but how are our children being taught it?
Do they know when it started and how it finished?
Elwyn will hopefully explain
Forthcoming Events:
2026
- The English Civil War in Lancashire - October
- The Strange Death of Liberal England - November
- The Hanoverians - December
- OTHERS:
- The Rise and Fall of British Empire
- Thatcher v Heath and other deadly political rivalries
- David Lloyd George
- Crime and Punishment in Britain
Previous sessions:
2026
- 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)
