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2008/9 MONTHLY GENERAL MEETINGS

*Shaded text indicates Mediaeval World Project Events*

 

Monthly Meetings

Held at ‘the Maltings’ at 2.00 pm on Mondays during term time - please come regularly to hear interesting outside speakers, and up-to-date news.

 2008

Sep 1       Registration Day, commences at 10.00 am in the Great Hall

Sep 8      Annual General Meeting and ‘The History of Farnham’s Almshouses’ by
Bob Verner-Jeffries, Chairman of Andrew Windsor Almshouses

Oct 6      ‘The Perils of Pilgrimage’ by Dr Terry Dolan

Nov 3      ‘Mediaeval Farnham’ by David Graham

Dec 1      ‘Mediaeval Books of Hours’ by Colin McDonald

 2009

Jan 12      ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’- An ‘interactive’ look at the artefacts, customs and dress of the Tudor Period by Denise Quinney

Feb 9      ‘Stamp Collecting and its History’ by Francis Kiddle, an eminent authority on all things philatelic.

Mar 9      ‘Dylan Thomas – His Life and Times’ by Jonathan Jones – following his well- received talk about Kipling, Jonathan returns to talk about the Welsh poet.

April 27    ‘The Palace of Westminster’ by Peter Horsfall – this is a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the House of Lords by Major Horsfall, who was Staff Superintendent

May 11     ‘More Tea, Less Vicar’ by Jill Frazer – how to survive an English country vicarage when you’re not the Vicar!

June 8     ‘A Tudor Gentleman of Surrey: Sir Thomas Moore of Loseley House’ by Mike Page. From the archives of the Surrey History Centre  

 

 
 


Last revision: July 2008