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June 2022
The History of the British Longbow and the Cheshire and Flintshire Bowmen
Bernard Dennis is a member of the British Longbow Society. It can be said that the English longbow was the most important English military invention of the 1300s and that it changed the political face of Europe. Bernard will be telling us about the development of bows and arrows ranging from the need for hunting, the use in war and recreation, and also the legend of Robin Hood.
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Science and the Vikings
Professor Stephen Harding, Professor of Applied Biology at the University of Nottingham, will be following on from his previous talk which looked at DNA samples taken from men of long standing Wirral families. These DNA results illustrated the connections between modern Wirral families and Scandinavians. It's all in the genes.
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