Here is a list of all our all our previous talks – Over 400 in total!! You can use the Search function for key words (magnifying glass in our menu).
Thank you to all the Speakers we have had over the years.
The British Motor Car industry is famous for its illustrious marques and makes from the early 1900’s including Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Bristol., Triumph, Riley, Standard, Jensen, Reliant, Humber, Sunbeam ,Hillman Singer, Daimler. Sadly, not one of these car companies is still manufacturing. Andrew Swift gave us a fascinating insight into the history of the Austin … Read more
—————————————————————– Professor Clyde Binfield is a Cambridge graduate and taught for many years in the History Department at the Sheffield University. He was introduced as a Kentish man by the Chairman but was soon corrected by Clyde saying that he was a man from Kent, which, we were informed, is entirely different. His talk was … Read more
Although David is not a doctor, historian or academic, he retired to Eyam and discovered that the waterfall on the farm he had bought, was the site where a Matthew Morton had taken up residence, in 1665, with his dog ‘Flash’, to escape the plague, which had killed his wife – or was it? When … Read more
Where did the medieval knight come from? Most people have seen suits of armor in museums, and even parish churches have carved effigies of knights on tombs, so the picture of a knight is well known. In England the first knights were Normans who came with William the Conqueror. They fought on horseback, unlike the Saxons who … Read more
Ever heard of Trevor Adlett, Reg Cooper, Harry Double or Fred and his Buffer Girl wife Ivy? Ever wondered what was there before the construction of yet another student residence or that car park where the ticket machine always jams? Our speaker this week, retired Headmaster and local historian Peter Machin, was to stimulate our … Read more
Andy, a very wiry, tough photographer/journalist, preceded his talk with a short history of the Alaskan Klondike gold-rush in the late 19th Century. Three Swedish gentlemen, strolling along a beach, found several large gold nuggets, which began what became the ‘Great Klondike Gold Rush.’ Within a year of the event a small town of 30,000 … Read more