U3A Swindon British Social History Group

September 2019: The Group has been Wound Up.


British Social History Group -- Meetings During 2016


See our programmes for: 2013201420152016201720182019.


Date Programme for Spring 2016
 
Wed. 13th January   Britain Immediately After World War II
Wed. 27th January   Chivalry
Wed. 10th February   The English Countryside -- An idyll?
Wed. 24th February   Food, Fasting, Inns and Ale-houses
Wed. 9th March   Childhood of Elizabeth I; Baby-Farming; Dubious Pharmaceuticals
Wed. 23rd March   Sir Walter Scott; Eglinton; A.E.Housman; Kings College Cambridge Choristers

Date Programme for Summer 2016
 
Wed. 20th April   Cars and the Legislation that Affects Them
Wed. 4th May   Pilgrimages (Chaucer and others)
Wed. 18th May   Group Session: Memorable Item, Memorable People From Your Life
Wed. 1st June   IK Brunel; Roads
Wed. 15th June   Nationalisation; George Hudson, Dr. Beeching
Wed. 29th June   Rev. Francis Kilvert and his Diary

Date Provisional Programme for Autumn 2016
 
Wed. 14th September   King George V and family
Wed. 28th September   Prisons
Wed. 12th October   JRR Tolkien: The Day Job; Thomas Hardy
Wed. 26th October   Group Project: Bristol
Wed. 9th November   Some Bristol People; Harold The Almost-Conqueror
Wed. 23rd November   All At Sea
Wed. 7th December   Yuletide and Other Seasonal Celebrations