Thursday 12th November, 19:15 for 19:30, Zoom only
A timeline for Neolithic Dolmen
Doug Stuckey
Placing Dolmen in the monument construction sequence of the British Neolithic period and how some were re-purposed. Following on from last years talk on Neolithic Monuments which did not include british Dolmen.
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Saturday November 14th 14:00 : Parish Church Patrons: supporting your church and saving your soul in Medieval England
St Thomas, at St Mary’s, Drayton Beauchamp
Speaker: Eleanor Townsend (D Phil student University of Oxford, previously curatorial roles at the V&A)
England’s medieval parish churches were once saturated with imagery, which has almost all been subsequently destroyed. Each image was paid for by someone, to beautify their church, but also in the hope of saving their souls after death . By exploring the different types of image once ubiquitous in our parish churches, and the people responsible for them, this lecture will unlock a lost world.
Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).
Two walks around Hodgemoor Woods
Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell
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‘My daring pen, will bolder sallies make, and like my self, an uncheck’d freedom take.’
The writer of those words did her best to live up to them. She published a long feminist poem at the age of seventeen in defiance of her father ‒ who then exiled her from her London home. Her life story reveals a woman struggling against the constraints imposed by family, gender and economic position, making bold stabs at independence and forced to settle for ultimately unsatisfactory compromises.
Sarah lived most of her life in Buckinghamshire at Shenley, Adstock and finally Winslow. Her poetry, rediscoved in the 1970s, brings together her personal experience with rallying cries to women. In this book David Noy combines the autobiographical nature of Sarah’s poetry with historical research to tell her life story.
Your can purchase a copy Here
Saturday May 9th BAS AGM
(after the AGM): Publication of the BAS Deeds Catalogue
Speaker: Chris Low
The BAS AGM will start at 14:00 with the Lecture to follow at circa 14:35. The AGM and Lecture will be one Zoom session. The head count for the AGM will be taken at 14:00.
Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).
The societies latest newsletter is available online
(and can be downloaded) Here