| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| When: | Fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 1st & 3rd Tuesday afternoon |
| Venue: | Lovedean Village Hall |
This group started in October, 2015.
We are friendly and enthusiastic group, who enjoy learning more about things we know and finding out a lot of things we don't!
For most meetings members prepare a brief talk to open a discussion on a topic of their own choice. At other meetings we have short talks of about ten minutes. Topics are usually themes from the 1500s to the present day.
If you wish to join us don't panic! You will not be expected to give a talk at the next meeting! As you will see below, we have covered a wide range of topics so far!
A Tudor Christmas
John Logie Baird
The Andover Workhouse Scandal
The Luddites
The Tay Bridge Disaster
No Homes Fit For Heroes
Selling Your Wife at an Auction (Divorce)
Aspects of Norwich History
DNA Fingerprinting (Alex Jefferies)
Dr. George McGonnagle (The Housewives' Champion)
Beate Sinora Gordon
The Bike in Wartime
The Speaking Clock
Joseph Paxton (gardener and architect, designer of the Crystal Palace where the Great Exhibition of 1850 was held)
The early days of the Post Office
Joseph Lister (pioneer of antiseptic surgery)
The Golsboro Incident
The HMS Birkenhead Drill
History of Women's Toilets
The Crimean War
The British in India (including the personal lives of people who lived through it)
The Gordon Riots (the political situation, Catholic suppression and conditions at the time)
Flying in the 19th century (focussing on pioneers and their machines)
Fake News - the Real Wild West (the truth behind the legends)
Wentworth House and some of the people who lived there
Dr. James Lind and scurvy (including the causes, symptoms and cure of the disease)
The Gold Standard - what it is, why it was first introduced and its history
The history of Railway Inspectors and safety on the railways
The early days of postal services from a single messenger to the founding of the first General Post Office
The growth of tourism, from the first British tourists to package holidays
The Peterloo massacre - events leading up to it and the aftermath
History of the Carlisle to Settle railway
Jesse Boot - transformed the Boots Company into a national retailer
First flight of the Spitfire
The Berners Street Hoax
Brendan Bracken biography
Sheffield memorial to a crashed American bomber
Unchaining the Insane - the history and treatment of mental illness in Britain
The Frictionless Match
Elon Musk - technology entrepreneur, inventor and engineer
Sir Henry Tate
The early life of Emma Hamilton
Gerard Mercator