County Calendar - events organised by Member Societies

This page provides an at-a-glance calendar of events organised by our member societies; the events are listed by date. Would-be visitors to any of the events listed below are strongly advised to contact the organiser to ensure that places are still available and for any last minute changes (if any).

September 2011

Thursday 1st    
Women of The Wild West – Derek Batton Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Tuesday 6th    
The Battle of Britain – Juris Trede Syresham & Dist. HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 7th    
AGM and Review of Accessions Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
George Bernard Shaw – Rosemary Jury Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 8th    
Charles Bradlaugh MP – Colin Eaton Harpole Heritage Group 7.30 pm
     
Friday 9th    
Pictures in the Parlour – The Magic Lantern – Kevin Varty Oundle Historical Society 7.30 pm
     
Saturday 10th    
Northampton Heritage Fair: Church Rooms, St. Sepulchre, Northampton Heritage Hunters (contact) 11.00 am to 4.00 pm
Heritage Open Days: Spratton Village Walk – Guided walks round Spratton Heritage Trail for the public. Spratton LHS 11.00 am & 2.00 pm
     
Sunday 11th    
Heritage Open Days: Spratton Village Walk – Guided walks round Spratton Heritage Trail for the public. Spratton LHS 11.00 am & 2.00 pm
     
Wednesday 14th    
Victorian Northamptonshire Inventors and Inventions – Jon-Paul Carr Cogenhoe & Whiston HS 2.30 pm
     
Thursday 15th    
Royal Mistresses – Roger Powell Thrapston District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 16th    
History of Tempsford Airfield – Steve Harris Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 21st    
Going for a Spin – Colin Rowe Wolverton & Dist.Arch HS 7.30 pm
     
Monday 26th    
The Poor and the Poor Laws – Brian Jones Weedon Bec History Society 7.30 pm
Excavations at Stanion Roman Villa – Jason Clark Wellingborough Arch & HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 30th    
The Wireless Schoolmaster of Bugbrooke – Ms P Kent Blisworth Heritage Society 7.30 pm

October 2011

Tuesday 4th    
AGM followed by a Quiz – Greg Stevens Syresham & Dist. HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 5th    
The Battle of Britain – Juris Trede Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 6th    
A Saviour of Living Cargoes: Caroline Chisholm – Carole Walker Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
Peterborough Cathedral: Two simultaneous guided tours Oundle Historical Society 7.30 pm
The History of the Cobblers – John Morris Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
A Saviour of Living Cargoes: Caroline Chisholm – Carole Walker Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 13th    
Hall Farm, Harpole and its Associated Land – Jeremy Calderwood Harpole Heritage Group 7.30 pm
     
Friday 14th    
J W Evans, The Silver Factory – Nick HIll NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Saturday 15th    
EMIAC 82:Industrial Heritage Day: ‘Stoned in Northamptonshire’ Organised by NIAG * See contact details below All day
     
Wednesday 19th    
Caroline Chisholm – Carole Walker Wolverton & Dist.Arch HS 7.30 pm
Bomber Command – Garth Barnard Spratton LHS 8.00 pm
     
Thursday 20th    
The Bowmen of England – Colin Stephenson Thrapston District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 21st    
Seven Wonders of Northamptonshire – David Bond Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Saturday 22nd    
Heritage Day - Cogenhoe hosts the 2011 event – places are still available Last chance to book for this event. Booking form from NALH Secretary. 9.30 am
     
Friday 28th    
A History of Food, Feasting and food Production in Northamptonshire 1837 to date – Jon-Paul Carr Blisworth Heritage Society 7.30 pm
     
Monday 31st    
An American Eye View of Northants – Gary Shaeffer Weedon Bec History Society 7.30 pm
AGM Wellingborough Arch & HS 7.30 pm

November

Tuesday 1st    
Cracking Ice – the Search for the North West passage – Keith Ramsey Syresham & Dist. HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 2nd    
The Culworth Gang – David Hewitt Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
Northamptonshire Victorian Inventors and Inventions – Jon-Paul Carr Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
     
Thursday 3rd    
The Extraordinary Mr Audubon! – Nicholas Hammond Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 10th    
Annual Dinner plus entertainment 16th century dances Harpole Heritage Group 7.00 pm
     
Friday 11th    
Church Wall Paintings in Northamptonshire – Janice Morris Oundle Historical Society 7.30 pm
AGM – Victorian Northamptonshire, Inventions and Inventors – Jon-Paul Carr NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 16th    
The Life and Times of Sir Frank Markham (Pt3) – Elizabeth Thomson Wolverton & Dist.Arch HS 7.30 pm
The History of Northamptonshrie County Cricket Club – Maurice Kent Spratton LHS 8.00 pm
     
Thursday 17th    
Bayonets or Bushels: Community and families on the Home Front during WWI – Sally Sokoloff Thrapston District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 18th    
Panto is Dead – Oh No It Isn’t!! – Nicola Jelliman Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 25th    
18th Century Hospital Child Care – Dr. Andrew Williams Blisworth Heritage Society 7.30 pm
     
Monday 28th    
The Great Central Railway – Chris Bazeley Weedon Bec History Society 7.30 pm
Royal Affairs – Roger Powell Wellingborough Arch & HS 7.30 pm

December

Thursday 1st    
An evening with Mr Dickens – David Wilson and Richard Oberman Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Tuesday 6th    
Member’s Christmas evening Syresham & Dist. HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 7th    
Christmas reminiscences with a seasonal Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
Dinner at The Olde Sun Inn, Nether Heyford Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Northamptonshire 1903 – talk by one of his descendants Spratton LHS 8.00 pm
     
Friday 9th    
Thatching – Roger Scanlon NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Sunday 11th    
Christmas Social Blisworth Heritage Society 2 to 4 pm
     
Monday 12th    
Christmas Social - Venue TBA Wellingborough Arch & HS TBA
     
Wednesday 14th    
The Battle of Naseby – John Kliene Wolverton & Dist.Arch HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 15th    
Members’ Night Thrapston District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 16th    
Pictures in the Parlour, The history of the Magic Lantern – Kevin Varty Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm

January

Wednesday 4th    
Wheels in disaster – the tragic Oxfordshire rail crash on Christmas Eve 1874 – Peter Lewis Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Saturday 7th    
12th Night Party - bookable Raunds & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 12th    
Leonie and the last Napoleon – Tony Boullemier Harpole Heritage Group 7.30 pm
     
Friday 13th    
Thomas Cook and the origins of popular tourism – Paul Smith Oundle Historical Society 7.30 pm
Evening of Members’ presentations NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Thursday 19th    
AGM Thrapston District HS 7.30 pm
     
Friday 20th    
Shopping in the 18th Century – Prof Jon Stobart Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm

February

Wednesday 1st    
Norton Hall – Marcus Lewis Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
     
Thursday 9th    
Historic Wrecks off the South Devon Coast – Chris Yates Harpole Heritage Group 7.30 pm
     
Friday 10th    
Brunel's 'Great Eastern' – Isambard Thomas & Alexandra Warwick NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 14th    
AGM + Stanley Baldwin – Jeremy Dobson Brackley & District HS 7.30 pm
The Cooper Collection – Gary Shaeffer Spratton LHS 8.00 pm
     
Friday 24th    
Policing Rural England before the Police – Dr. Drew Gray Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm

March

Wednesday 7th    
Medieval Masons – Bob Trubshaw Flore Heritage Society 7.45 pm
     
Thursday 8th    
Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group – Peter Perkins Harpole Heritage Group 7.30 pm
     
Friday 9th    
AGM and The World of Strings – Nick Penny Oundle Historical Society 7.30 pm
To be advised NIAG 7.30 pm
     
Friday 16th    
The Social History of Allotments – Dr. Twigsway Rushden & District HS 7.30 pm
     
Wednesday 21st    
The Montagus of Boughton – Charles Lister Spratton LHS 8.00 pm

 

Society Contact Details

Please contact the respective society for further details on their events.

Blisworth Heritage Society Mr R Andrews 01604 858252
Brackley & District History Society Margaret Baines 01280 701115
Cogenhoe & Whiston Heritage Society Val & Tony Loader 01604 890862
Flore Heritage Society John Smith 01327 340387
Harpole Heritage Group Jennifer Smith 01604 831294
NIAG Peter Perkins 01536 713256
NIAG * Jane Waterfield 01327 312850
Oundle Historical Society Perdita Cawthorne 01832 205115
Raunds District History Society Bryan Brittin 01933 622423
Roade Local History Society William Hudson 01604 863388
Rushden & District History Society Brian Shelton 01933 314241
Spratton Local History Society Enid Jarvis 01604 821260
Syresham & District History Society Keith McLean 01280 850272
Thrapston District Historical Society Eddie Sewell 01832 735248
Weedon Bec History Society Julia Johns 01327 341729
Wellingborough Archaeological & Historical Society Mary Traxton 01933 224324
Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society Audrey Lambert 01908 565481