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…
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.
Tom Navin, a Falklands veteran, will be talking about his experiences as a combat medic during that conflict. The talk will be illustrated and there will be an extended Q & A session.
An equally famous Thomas in the history of railway building, Thomas Brassey was born at Buerton, Aldford, near Chester in 1805. He was at the forefront of railway mania, building railways across the world and employing some 85,000 men at the height of his career. Our speaker, Peter Bolt, is…
The return of Michael Crumplin, a retired surgeon from Wrexham hospital, is much anticipated. In November he will be looking at what surgery was like, from both sides of the knife, from 1914 to 1918 and aren't we thankful we are living now and not then. His lectures are like…
Jean Finney is a singer, songwriter and artist but in December she will be Joyce Grenfell for the evening - wonderful. So behave yourselves: "George, don't do that".
In January Tony Bostock, a local well-known historian, will be joining us to take a look at the life and loves of a Maid of Honour at the court of Elizabeth I. Mary Fitton became a favourite of the Queen but was she also the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets? Join…
Chris Green will be giving us the amazing story of the villagers of Eyam in Derbyshire, who voted to quarantine when the bubonic plague came to their village in 1665. What happened next? Some of the descendants of the survivors are still living in the village to this day.
Unlike those painters who use their artistic licence to great effect, those artists who painted ship portraits are renowned for a careful and accurate depiction of their subjects. The ships' masters commissioning the work demanded a precise rendition of their chosen vessel. Our speaker, Jonathan Aylen, explores the narratives and…
Miss Lydia Becker was a suffragist, scientist and trailblazer from Manchester, who in the late 19th century became the national leader of the women's suffrage movement, inspiring a 14 year old Emmeline Pankhurst. Although dying 13 years before the founding of the Suffragettes, her work helped to lay the foundations…