| Date | Speaker | Subject | |
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| Fri 30 Jul 2021 | Lancashire Archives Lunchtime talks | Food Related Archives - access details from archives@lancashire.gov.uk (starts at 12.30pm) | |
| Online talk via ZOOM - details of access from archives@lancashire.gov.uk |
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| Sat 7 Aug 2021 | Janet Few (Talk starts at 2.00pm) | The Ill, the Impoverished, the Illegitimate and the Insane: researching our marginalised ancestors (London Branch Meeting but all welcome) | |
| Online talk via ZOOM - login from 1.30pm |
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| Tue 10 Aug 2021 | John Titterton | Introduction to Heraldry -Heraldry is found in churches, country houses and the high street. this talk gives a background to the use and development of heraldry in England for over 800 years | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 14 Sep 2021 | John Vigar | Superior Seats Where do we sit in church. This lecture looks at church seating through the centuries from the solid stone benches that made the weak go to the wall to the grand private pews. | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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| Tue 12 Oct 2021 | Harold Hoggarth | The English Civil War in Lancashire 1642-1644. Lancashire played a leading part in the course of the war in the North of England and so it is worth knowing about. | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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| Sat 16 Oct 2021 | Dr Michael Winstanley (Talk starts at 2.00pm) | The Lune Valley and the West Indies: sugar, cotton and the slave economy (London Branch Meeting but all welcome) | |
| Online talk via ZOOM - login from 1.30pm |
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| Tue 9 Nov 2021 | Dr Mike Winstanley | Happy Days? Elementary schooling, 1818-1918 in the North West. The sorts of schools which existed in the C19 and what they taught. | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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| Tue 14 Dec 2021 | Mark Lewis | Cribs, Cards and Christingles - The Origins of Christmas Traditions and Customs -The talk also includes some of the lesser-known folklore including Jesse Trees, Chrismons, Mumming Plays and Wassailing | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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| Tue 11 Jan 2022 | Dr Ann Featherstone | Here we go again. A brief history of Pantomime a peculiarly British tradition, pantomime burst upon the London stage more than 250 years ago. Its history from the Regency period to the present day. | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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