U3A Swindon British Social History Group

September 2019: The Group has been Wound Up.


British Social History Group -- Meetings During 2015


See our programmes for: 2013201420152016201720182019.


Date Programme for Autumn 2015
 
Wed. 16th September   The Children of Queen Victoria
Wed. 30th September   Piracy
Wed. 14th October   Dickens, HG Wells, Elgar
Wed. 28th October   Emigration and The Highland Clearances
Wed. 11th November   Islands and Near-Islands:
Wight, Anglesey, Ely, Iona, Lundy
Wed. 25th November   Southern England: posh and not-posh
Eton College; Isle of Dogs; Osborne House; Sheppey
Wed. 9th December   Coffee / Chocolate Houses; History Quiz;
White's; Almack's; Tom and Jerry

Date Meetings Held In Summer 2015
 
Wed. 29th April   The People of the Titanic
Wed. 20th May   Plagues and Pestilences
Wed. 3rd June   Mining and Quarrying
Wed. 17th June   Poaching
Wed. 1st July   The River Thames

Date Meetings held in Spring 2015
 
Wed. 14th Jan.   The Outlying Islands of Britain
Wed. 28th Jan.   Masters and Servants
Wed. 11th Feb.   Sir Christopher Trychay, Vicar of Morebath
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
Wed. 25th Feb.   The Wool Trade
The Lute
Wed. 11th Mar.   The Crystal Palace, Beau Nash, Isle of Man
Wed. 25th Mar.   Bread; Ale; Meat; Wine