Meetings

A talk by Matt Lewis In the summer of 1381, an uprising remembered as the Peasants' Revolt set London ablaze and almost burned down the political structures of Medieval England. After its collapse, the revolt was presented by the government as a rabble of violent thugs but they weren't peasants and it wasn't really a …

AGM followed by A talk by Adam Busiakiewicz In the 1590s Ralph Sheldon commissioned a set of portraits of English monarchs and other notables for his home Weston Hall in Long Compton. The house is now gone and the paintings were sold at Christies in 1791 and dispersed. So how did the painting of Henry …

A talk by Alan Read Alan explores the story behind the Christmas truce of 1914, where an officer of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment played a key role in the meeting in No-Man's land between the British and German soldiers where gifts and photos were exchanged. Did the alleged football match between the opposing armies actually …