History

Another exciting presentation from one of our members. The title to this meeting will be ‘Timekeeping’. Come along and join in, I am sure you’ll have the time!!  

Merry Christmas and all the best to all the members of the History group. New members are always welcome. See you all in 2026 Catherine

The History group's next meeting is Tuesday 28th October at noon-1pm. We have a guest speaker, John, who will be presenting 'A History of Astronomy Part 2'. Many of you[...]

Tuesday, 24th June at 12 noon, is the history meeting. The title is 'Unsung Heroes Who Have Changed the World'. Although these heroes are mainly from the North East, they[...]

Ancient History had an 'ancient history'. Plato and Socrates could look back 3,000 years to a society that invented writing, mathematics, and wheeled transport. As far as we know this[...]

The turbulant and bloody Tudor century saw many families rise and fall; Boleyns, Percys, Brandons, Howards, Seymours, but none were quite as audacious as the three generations of the Dudleys.[...]

Like some giant jigsaw, the enigma of the origins and final disappearance of the Tocharians seems somehow bound up with the european mummies of the Takla-makan desert of Western China.[...]

What motivates an individual to lead, and thousands, sometimes millions, to follow? Three of the individuals above (no need to say which) led their armies to defeat or retreat, starting[...]

The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are a linguistic and cultural group living in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages (left). There are around 250 million native[...]

The discovery of an extensive Bronze Age correspondence between Kingdoms revealed the full details of the invasions. The two waves of seaborne attackers brought down many well-fortified kingdoms and city[...]

One of the most significant innovations in eighteenth-century leisure was the pleasure garden; a dedicated outdoor space for entertainment. London's pleasure gardens were the very best places to see and[...]

We will take a quick look at the ancient Amazons, the 19th Century Dahomey Lesbian Army and the WW2 Rani of Jhansi's Girls Regiment (which fought alongside the Japanese against[...]

Britain, as we know, was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and nowhere played a bigger part in this great leap forward than the West Midlands. And it was here,[...]

Britain, as we know, was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and nowhere played a bigger part in this great leap forward than the West Midlands. And it was here,[...]

The Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1676, send an insulting reply to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Inhabiting the turbulant land that we now know as 'Ukraine', but previously as 'the[...]

The New Model Army, the Diggers, the Levellers and the Ranters

Apprenticeship to Masters Degree (and beyond) as illustrated by a family’s story In the late 1920’s a farmers daughter from Hertfordshire qualified as a pharmacist, after a three year apprenticeship[...]

The 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with[...]

As human societies emerged, the need to keep track of possessions and rations through pictures (pictograms) slowly developed into more complex forms to represent speech for keeping history, and maintaining[...]

The Battle of Kadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh[...]

Hatshepsut married her half-brother at the age of 13 or 14 and became Regent to reign in his stead about 6 years later. On her death, after 22 years on[...]

They appeared four thousand years ago, from the steppes somewhere north of the Caspian, moving constantly westward with their animals and carts. Never stopping long enough to build towns or[...]

When HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died just two months short of his hundredth birthday, nowhere was his loss more deeply felt than on a small island in the[...]