Event Category: Talk
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"Katherine of Aragon" - Dr. Gill White
We all know about Katherine of Aragon: she was 'the first wife’. But what was she really like? This talk tells Katherine’s largely forgotten story, from childhood in the palaces of Spain, through her short-lived first marriage, her traumatic fight for survival as a young widow, her triumphant second marriage and the catastrophe of ‘The… Read more
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"Whores, Toffers and Three-penny Uprights" - Angela Dunsby
Popular speaker Angela Dunsby from the John Moore Museum in Tewksbury returns to present her new talk on the history of the `oldest profession’. Read more
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"Palladian Architecture" - Jeff Price
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 28th January 2026 in The Jubilee Hall, Blockley Heritage Centre, Park Road, Blockley GL56 9BY. Please note it will start slightly later than usual at 11am when we will have the eminent speaker on Palladian Architecture, Mr Jeffrey Price, to entertain you. Read more
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"The Commonwealth War Graves Commission" - Paul Martin Brooks
This talk is about the history of the CWGC. Paul’s talk starts with the beginnings of the Commission, looks at its work during the First and Second World Wars and concludes with its work today in maintaining and preserving its historic estate around the World. The presentation will also focus on the war graves in… Read more
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"Bad History – How we got the past so wrong" - Carl Whitmore
So, you think you know your history? Think again! With this audience participation talk that sets out to question everything you thought you knew about some historical 'facts'. Using the examples of Joan of Arc, The Wild West and the Suffragette movement, the truth as you know it will be questioned and what you were… Read more
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"Farm Buildings: recording and researching the past for the future" - Dr Alan Wadsworth (Project Leader, Worcs. Farmsteads Project)
Background to the Farmsteads Project. History of agriculture from the 15th century onwards with reference to buildings. Different types of historic farm buildings and their uses. How farmsteads were organised and why. Building materials used. How we go about recording and researching farm buildings. Read more
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My Life in the Pharmaceutical Industry
A talk by Eric Watts. Read more
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"Inigo Jones the brilliant architect who changed English architecture, and Sir Anthony van Dyck, the sensational artist of King Charles I and his court" - Sally Ferrers
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"In the Skies over Passchendaele" - Robin Goldsmith
The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders. Read more
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Wilfred Owen, WWI war poet extraordinaire - Howard Robinson
Owen is regarded by many as the greatest poet of the First World War, known for his verse about the horrors of trench and gas warfare. He had been writing poetry for some years before the war, himself dating his poetic beginnings to the age of ten years old. Read more