Meetings

A talk by Dr Gillian White. This talk will be streamed live online via Zoom, the link to enable members to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to our email distribution list a few days beforehand. Visitors are welcome - email nick.holmes9@gmail.com to request the link On Saturday 9 July 1575, at about 8pm, …

A Talk  by Sylvia Gill about the History of Birmingham Rep Looking at the life and work of Sir Barry Jackson (1879-1961 ) who founded Birmingham REP in 1913, the first purpose built Rep theatre in the world and with George Bernard Shaw, the Malvern Festival. Jackson was the first post-war director of the Shakespeare …

A Talk by Carolyn Ewing The first part of the meeting will be our AGM, a bar and nibbles will be available from 7pm. The talk will start at around 7:45 to 8pm The history of the Hatton Asylum provides an insight into how the Victorians  treated the mentally ill. The Hatton records are kept …

A talk by Dr Julian Davey It is known that Richard lll was in Worcester city on 5th August 1483 and in Warwick on the 8th August, but there is no record of where he spent the 6th and the 7th. In his talk Julian explores all the possible routes of Richard's journey through Worcestershire …

A talk by Joe Harvey from Virtual Reality company RiVR about the VR exploration of tunnels in Warwick and scanning of St. Mary's Church. The talk will outline how VR scanning is carried out and then provide an update on the projects for the tunnels in Warwick and the scanning of St. Mary's.

A talk about stained glass by renowned expert Alastair Carew-Cox Alastair works as an architectural photographer but takes a special interest in pre-Raphaelite stained glass and has published several books on the subject

On 12th July 1801 the twenty-two year old eldest son of the Earl of Warwick embarked on an extraordinary adventure.   Henry Richard Greville(1779-1853), Lord Brooke and the 3rd Earl of Warwick, spent nearly three years travelling to the furthest parts of Europe on his Grand Tour. This included the highly unusual destinations of Moscow …

A talk by Dr Bob Bearman Mary Mackay (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924), known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli, was an English novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Sales of Corelli's novels exceeded the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan …

A talk by renowned raconteur Graham Sutherland Featuring the Revd. Arthur Savage Wade who was banned from preaching and from his own church, St Nicholas in Warwick. The Revd. John Craig from All Saints in Leamington who rebuilt the church and fell out grievously with his parish council. The Revd. Thomas Colley, archdeacon of  Southam, …