A partnership established to record, promote and protect the heritage of West Berkshire
Date: Sunday, 26 January 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Organiser: Thatcham Historical Society
Thatcham Historical Society starts the new year with a brief AGM and a social evening. New members are always welcome, volunteers to sit on the comittee will be welcomed with open arms.
For more information, visit the website. https://www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Organiser: West Berkshire Museum
This talk will focus on the objects which museum collections volunteer Tom Allen chose for the Volunteers Choice special exhibition, explaining why he chose them. He'll centre on material relating to Captain Robert Hawkes and itsconnection to his time at the Royal Logistics Corps Museum in Worthy Down.
This talk complements the Volunteers Choice exhibition.
Tom Allen has worked in museums since 2008, mostly with military collections, and has written several articles for 'Soldiers of the Queen' published by the Victorian Military Society.
Date: Thursday, 13 February 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Organiser: The Newbury Society
Talk by Constable Julie Lloyd and Steward Greg Furr. The Town and Manor of Hungerford and Liberty of Sanden Fee is a charity (formed in 1908) that protects the local countryside and a wonderful ancient set of rights, for the Commoners and people of Hungerford.
Date: Thursday, 20 February 2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Organiser: West Berkshire Museum
Wife, Stepmother and Interior Designer. Exploring Cassandra's life at Shaw House and the role of the eighteenth-century wife.
Talk by artist Anne Griffiths discussing how the life of Cassandra Brydges is represented in the installation "A Botanic Dream"
Date: Thursday, 20 February 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Organiser: West Berkshire Museum
Wife, Stepmother and Interior Designer. Exploring Cassandra's life at Shaw House and the role of the eighteenth-century wife.
Talk by artist Anne Griffiths discussing how the life of Cassandra Brydges is represented in the installation "A Botanic Dream"
Date: Sunday, 23 February 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Organiser: Thatcham Historical Society
Dr David Peacock will talk about the history of the medieval churches in West Berkshire.
Members free, non-members £3. Refreshments (50p) are served prior to the talk which starts at 7.30pm.
For more information please visit the website: https://www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
Date: Thursday, 13 March 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Organiser: The Newbury Society
Thatcham's historian, Dr Nick Young, will look at the history of the parish from evidence of early humans in the Palaeolithic, through the birth of the modern town to the present. Important events that shaped the development of Thatcham will be discussed, key buildings will be looked at and the origin of the name. The talk will give a brief overview of the extensive history of Thatcham.
Members free. Visitors welcome, the charge for non-members is £2.50.
Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Organiser: The Newbury Society
Eric Turner will give a brief overview of his career as an art historian, firstly as a porter in Sotheby’s, followed by his career as a curator in the Victoria and Albert Museum. His talk will focus on how both these institutions have responded to changing tastes and markets over the last 50 years.
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 - 7:30pm
Organiser: Aldermaston History Group
Alan Turton will give a talk on the Sieges of Basing House during the Civil War of the 1640's.
Members free, non-members £5.
For more information, please visit the website: https://group.aldermastonhistory.uk/
Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Organiser: The Newbury Society
A talk by sculptor Johannes von Stumm, which relates the journey of how his work developed. He started making sculptures combining glass, stone and metal; but in trying to create larger pieces of glass he had to accept the technical limitations. Replacing glass with empty space led him in the early years of the 21st century to create material and immaterial figures. One example, called “Couple in Conversation,” stands on the Robin Hood roundabout, another one welcomes everyone entering the Greenham Common Trust.