Upcoming
Events & Talks
“Race to the Moon: the US manned lunar exploration programme” – John McCormick
Everyone knows where they watched the first moon landing in 1969. This was one of the great feats of exploration, programme management, scientific development and, most of all, tremendous guts and focus under pressure, of the last 100 years. Our speaker will also highlight some of the fascinating and amusing connections from this exploration programme which include men’s fashion, women’s empowerment, basketball, Elvis, lawlessness, government budgeting and the importance to NASA of felt tip pens and duct tape!
Northleach Workhouse - Isabel Harvey
It was a grim existence for those who found themselves at the mercy of life in a Victorian Workhouse. In a typical Cotswold market town such as Northleach as farming became more mechanized, those already living on the edges of poverty became so desperate they would find themselves at the gates of the town’s Workhouse. However Isabel Harvey, local history speaker, has discovered an unlikely story of hope for the girls of Northleach as through the education of them by their remarkable poor house School Mistress, Jane Hine, it enabled them to find employment and a more secure future.