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| Tue 8 Feb 2022 | Denise Bates | Breach of Promise to Marry - This talk explores what sort of women were the real Miss Havishams and what suing for damages after a broken engagement reveals about the social values of the time. | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 8 Mar 2022 | Nigel Callaghan | Hallelujah Lasses -The Salvation Army was launched in the 1870s, but most people are unaware that a majority of the officers who ran the local corps were young women, often still in their teens. | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 12 Apr 2022 | John Vigar | Bedrooms, Banquets and Balls -This amusing look at the development of the English Country House starts with the medieval Hall and follows architectural tastes and fashions to the mid 20th Century. | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 10 May 2022 | David Shimmings | First Canal - look at the first canals and then the story of the creation of the Bridgewater canal from Worsley to Manchester and to Runcorn | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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| Tue 14 Jun 2022 | Dr Colin Chapman MA FSG | Sin, Sex & Probate – Church Courts and Their Records Church Courts judged and recorded inappropriate behaviour of parishioners and clergy, issued marriage licences and proved wills. | |
| VIRTUAL MEETING BY ZOOM - Log in between 6.45pm and 7.00pm |
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