BANBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2009-2010
Banbury Historical Society Lectures 2009-2010
All lectures take place in Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury 2nd Thursdays, 7.30 pm
12th Nov 2009 | Alan Crawford Alan Crawford is a historian who has been much involved in the creation of Court Barn, a museum of 20th century craft and design in Chipping Campden.
| The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds This lecture tells how, in the years around 1900, artists and designers of the Arts and Crafts movement settled in the Cotswolds, finding beauty, inspiration and disappointment in roughly equal measures. |
10th Dec 2009 | Adrian Shooter Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport | Chiltern – a railway success story. Chiltern Railways is one of Britain’s most successful train operators. The talk will describe how a lightly-used suburban route has been transformed into a busy main line – and will also show narrow-gauge steam on the Beeches Light Railway.
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14th Jan 2010 | Helen Glew Helen Glew is completing a doctorate on various aspects of women’s employment in the General Post Office in the years 1914 – 1939. | Women workers in war and peace: the General Post Office, 1914 – 1939. This talk will survey women’s employment in the Post Office in the first World WAR and interwar period. Combining personal testimony with GPO employment policy and trade union campaigns, it covers subjects such as equal pay, the marriage bar and women’s roles.
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11th Feb 2010 | Mandy de Belin Mandy is currently completing her doctoral thesis at the Department of English Local History at Leicester. . | The Hunting Transition: from Deerhunting to Foxhunting. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries the sport of hunting was transformed. The prey changed from deer to fox, and the methods of pursuit were revolutionized.
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11th Mar 2010 | Ian Wall After a degree in prehistory and archaeology, Ian Wall specialized in environmental archaeology and palaeoecology, and with an interest in the Old Stone Age. | Cresswell Crags: inspiring visitors for 50,000 years. The caves at Cresswell Crags were used by the Neanderthals 50,000 years ago, and were a source of inspiration to George Stubbs in the 18th century, and Victorian excavators in the 1870s. There is now a Museum and it is a potential World Heritage Site
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15th April 2010 | Various – to be invited | Local History Workshop – reports on recent local research including a presentation by Aynho History Society |
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