U3A Swindon British Social History Group

September 2019: The Group has been Wound Up.


British Social History Group -- Meetings During 2018


See our programmes for: 2013201420152016201720182019.


Date Autumn 2018
 
Wed. 12th September   Romans into Scotland and Wales; Welsh Nationalism
Wed. 26th September   Shopworkers, Shop-Owners; Margaret Bondfield; Whiteleys, Selfridges
Wed. 10th October   Thomas Cromwell; Hans Holbein; Six Kings Called James
Wed. 24th October   LS Lowry; Football Pools; Bolton Massacre; Wigan; Alfred Wainwright
Wed. 7th November   Kathleen Ferrier; Fell Racing; Sellafield; Blackpool
Wed. 21st November   An Economic Migrant; An Addict; A Mixed-Race Musician
Wed. 5th December   Early Travel Writers; The Grand Tour; Francis Frith

Date Summer 2018
 
Wed. 25th April.   Horses and Horse Racing
Wed. 9th May   Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Treorchy Male Choir
Wed. 23rd May   (Cancelled)
Wed. 6th June   Caledonian Canal; Edinburgh Castle; John Knox; Sieges
Wed. 20th June   Shops, Markets, Trading
Wed. 4th July   The Coming of Electricity; Cathedral Choirs

Date Spring 2018
 
Wed. 10th Jan.   Whaling; The London Pleasure Gardens
Wed. 24th Jan.   Enforcing Morality
Wed. 7th February   Thames Watermen and Lightermen; Coastguards and Smugglers
Wed. 21st February   Crossing Scottish Rivers and Seas
Wed. 7th March   Knights Templars; Land Agents; Governesses and Nurses; Andy Capp
Wed. 21st March   Smithfield, Billingsgate, C.B.Fry, The Pocket Venus