Programme for September 2023 – June 2024
All meeting are held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7.30p.m. at Marshfield Church Hall, Bell Square, Marshfield SN14 8NN. (The exception is our talk on November 21st, 2023, when the meeting will be held at Marshfield Community Centre, Chippenham Road, Marshfield SN14 8 NZ. Annual membership is £10; Visitors: £3. For any queries, please use our Contact page on this web site.
Tuesday, September 19th: “Rocky and mountainous ways: Perilous travel in the 18th Century” Kirsten Elliott
Tuesday, October 17th: “Bedminster coal: Blood, sweat and tears” Garry Atterton
Tuesday, November 21st: “From the Great War to Cyber War: A history of GCHQ” Sir David Pepper. This meeting will be held at MARSHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTRE
Tuesday, December 19th: “Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Wiltshire” Nick Baxter
2024
Tuesday, January 16th “Commerce in context: Landscape, history & Bath”
Stuart Burrroughs
Tuesday, February 20th 2024: “Edward Long Fox: Radical & mental health pioneer” Dinah Moore
Tuesday, March 19th: “The history of Kingswood School” Gary Best
Tuesday, May 21st: “Filton in space: 60 Years & still counting” Terry Ransome
Tuesday April 16th: “The Black presence in Wiltshire: 1580-1945: Terry Bracher
Tuesday, June 18th: AGM at 7.00p.m. & “Feeding the workers in War time Bath: The story of Bath’s British restaurants”