“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Alan Bennett's view on History
Visit to Carpet Museum, Kidderminster
Harvington Hall
Steam Museum In July 2024 the History group visited the museum of the Great Western Railway which is housed in a beautifully restored building in the heart of the former Swindon raiiway works. The museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Raiiway, often referred to by historians and raiiway fans as "God's Wonderful Railway". Isambard Kingdom Brunel's railway network was regarded as the most advanced in the worid.
The Weald and Downland Living Museum, near Chichester
. This talk by Dr Mark Lewis, Senior Curator at the Roman Museum, Caerleon, looks at Newport's location on the River Usk in the Roman World and its communication links,
In 1943, during World War 2, Britain faced a dire shortage of coal. It was proposed by Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour and National Service, to direct 50,000 men […]
Zulu is a 1964 British epic historical drama film depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British Amy and the Zulu in the Anglo-Zulu […]
Free education from its inception in the 1870s to the 1944 Education Act concentrated primarily on the three Rs but there was another almost universal addition to this. Our U3a […]
The first Welsh settlers landed on the shores of what is today the Province of Chubut, in Argentinean Patagonia, on 28 July 1865. Carried on the ship Mimosa, this was […]
