U3A Swindon British Social History Group

September 2019: The Group has been Wound Up.


British Social History Group -- Meetings During 2017


See our programmes for: 2013201420152016201720182019.


Date Programme for Autumn 2017
 
Wed. 13th Sept.   Trial By Combat; Duelling; Riddles
Wed. 27th Sept.   The Press; W.T.Stead
Wed. 11th October   Getting Into / Out of / Around London
Wed. 25th October   The Spanish Armada; The Shipping Forecast
Wed. 8th November   Group Project: Down On The Farm
Wed. 22nd November   Village Visitors; Sheep
Wed. 6th December   The Golden Age of Mountaineering and exploration; Amundsen v. Scott


Date Programme for Summer 2017
 
Wed. 26th April   Naval Life
Wed. 10th May   Royal Finances
Wed. 24th May   Group Project: Glasgow and Clydeside
Wed. 7th June   Samuel Pepys and his Times
Wed. 21st June Georges 1/2/3/4: Candidates for Jeremiah Kyle Show?
Wed. 5th July   Commonwealth War Graves Commission; History of ATMs;
History of Covent Garden


Date Programme for Spring 2017
 
Wed. 11th January   Dover; The White Ship; Wreckers; Lighthouses
Wed. 25th January   Farming and Village Life
Wed. 8th February   Beau Brummell; Women's Clothing; Wedding Dresses
Wed. 22nd February   Group Project: The North of England
Wed. 8th March   Abolition of the Slave Trade; Gustave Doré; Old Clothes
Wed. 22nd March   Hats; Benjamin Britten