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  • May 2026

  • Tue 26

    May 2026 History Month

    26 May @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    • History Meeting

    Join us on Tuesday 26th May at noon for 'Skeletons in the Cupboard'. Explore the lives of once famous people and work out what were the skeletons in their cupboards!

  • Tue 26

    Hilaire Belloc was he a great writer or simply grumpy

    26 May @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    • Books and Literature Meeting
    • Frontpage

    Tonight, we go back in time to discuss the formidable output of some 500 works of literature across multiple genres, who at the same time managed to fall out with[...]

  • June 2026

  • Tue 9
    Fluorescent minerals, image from by Hannes Grobe/AWI from Wikimedia

    Minerals that glow

    9 June @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    • Frontpage
    • Geology Meeting
    Zoom

    Speaker: Doctor Paul Beatty Paul will be telling us all about these amazing minerals, why they glow and the many ways they're used. Mineral enthusiasts concentrate on displaying these minerals[...]

  • Wed 10

    ‘Forever’ Chemicals

    10 June @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    • Frontpage
    • Science and Technology Meeting

    ‘Forever' Chemicals, otherwise known as PFAs, are a large group of synthetic organic compounds that have been around – literally - since the 1930s, when they were discovered, quite by[...]

  • Tue 16

    Ask the group anything

    16 June @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    • Computing Meeting
    • Frontpage

    16 June @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm This month we running another ... ask the group anything. So come along with your questions - could be related to a[...]

  • Thu 18

    The Welfare State: Is it Still Affordable?

    18 June @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
    • Current Affairs Meeting
    • Frontpage

    In Britain today, few issues provoke more heated debate than this. On one side are those who argue, on humanitarian grounds, that the less fortunate among us deserve all the[...]

  • Tue 23

    Art History Month June 23rd 2026

    Featured 23 June @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    • Art History Meeting

    Join us on Tuesday 23rd June at noon for 'Edward Lear- More Than Nonsense' led by Kate Scott. a guest speaker Zoom link as previously

  • Tue 23

    Art History month is June 2026

    Featured 23 June @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    • Art History Meeting

    Join members on Tuesday 23rd June at noon for 'Edward Lear- more than nonsense' led by Kate, a guest speaker. Zoom link as previously Frog

  • Mon 29

    Discovering how our Genes shape Learning and Cognition

    29 June @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    • Frontpage
    • Leading-edge Research Meeting

    Speaker: Prof. Robert Plomin Professor of Behavioural Genetics Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College How much of intelligence and learning ability is[...]

  • July 2026

  • Wed 8

    Before Penicillin: Treating Infections in the ‘Olden Days’

    8 July @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    • Frontpage
    • Science and Technology Meeting

    Few would argue that the discovery of penicillin, and the antibiotics revolution that followed, was one of the most far-reaching breakthroughs of twentieth-century medical science. But infection treatment itself has[...]

  • Thu 16

    Burnham’s Britain

    16 July @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
    • Current Affairs Meeting
    • Frontpage

    It is now all but certain that, by next weekend, Andy Burnham will become our next Prime Minister. He may have a Messianic appeal within his party, but the man[...]

  • Tue 21

    Remote Access

    21 July @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    • Computing Meeting
    • Frontpage

    21st July @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Aside from web browsing, sometimes you need to login or access an application on a remote server.  This could be for the purposes of[...]

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