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| Tue 13 Apr 2021 | Jeremy Konsbruck | Conscription and Military Service Tribunals of The Great War | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Thu 15 Apr 2021 | Megan Roberts - Talk starts 7-30pm | Customs Man & Naval Man – a tale of Patronage, Mystery and Ultimately Failure | |
| Online talk via ZOOM Email stevewilliams24@gmail.com to book |
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| Sat 24 Apr 2021 | Kate Hurst (Talk Starts at 2.00pm) | Read All About It: Making Use Of Old Newspapers (London Branch Meeting but all welcome) | |
| Online talk via ZOOM - login from 1.30pm |
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| Tue 11 May 2021 | Jackie Depelle | Ideas for Researching Non-Conformist Ancestors. Many of our ancestors favoured a wide range of different denominations. What and where can we find their records and what will they tell us? | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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| Sat 15 May 2021 | | AGM and One Day Confererence 2021 | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM starting at 14.00 hours |
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| Tue 8 Jun 2021 | Paul Robbins | You Stupid Boy -A look back at Britains real Home Guard. originally called the Local Defence Volunteers. A group of doddery old men with a few stupid boys thrown in or Britains last line of defence ? | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 13 Jul 2021 | Robert Mee | The Village Lockup - A look at the history and use of village lockups - once a common feature in our communities. | |
| Online talk via ZOOM |
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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 heradry 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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| 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. | |
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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 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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