Buckinghamshire Branch Programme

Aylesbury

PROGRAMME 2009-2010

Meetings are held on Wednesdays at 8.00 pm in the Friends' Meeting House, Rickfords Hill, Aylesbury HP20 2RT (except where stated otherwise).

2009

21 October Prof Wendy Scase, Dept. of English, University of Birmingham  Vernacular Religious Books from Medieval England: The Vernon MS (Preceded by the Annual General Meeting at 7.30)

18 November Neil Rees The Other Bucks County: William Penn and Buckinghamshire Quakers in Pennsylvania

16 December Prof Richard Marks, University of Cambridge and University of York Medieval Stained Glass in Buckinghamshire (Preceded by the Christmas social at 7.15)

2010

20 Jan Prof Caroline Barron, Royal Holloway, University of London The Remarkable Cult of St Zita of Lucca in Medieval England

17 Feb Prof Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London  Eye of Newt - and Head of Vulture: a View of Medieval Medicine

17 March Dr Elaine Fulton, University of Birmingham Acts of God? The Interpretation of Natural Disasters in Early Modern Europe

21 April Daniel Scharf, Oxford Trust for Contemporary History Who Cares About the Cold War?: Using Upper Heyford as a Touchstone    

19 May Richard Jenkinson, The Chiltern Brewery 'A History of the Chiltern Brewery and its Place in England's Brewing Tradition'

16 June SUMMER EVENING WALK: Long Crendon, led by David Green (HistoricTowns Project, BCC) (7.30. Further details will be available in our May meeting)

Admission to meetings is free to full and associate members of the Historical Association.

VISITORS and Students WELCOME: ADMISSION £2

Associate membership of the Branch is £10 for the year from October 2009. Please pay by standing order or by cheque with the slip below (and s.a.e. if you want a receipt).

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (BUCKS BRANCH), ASSOCIATE SUBSCRIPTION 2008-2009

To: Terry Bloxham (Hon Secretary), 39 Castle Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2RA

Tel: 01296 485412        E-mail: t.bloxham@vam.ac.uk

(Please make cheques payable to the Historical Association, Bucks Branch.)