Illustrated on-line talks and face-to-face lectures at Discover Bucks Museum.
You can register for the next lecture using the link in the Lecture description below
See also the Thursday evening AAG programme Here
Our lectures are free but if you wish to contribute towards our running cost then you can donate Here . If you are not a BAS member, the benefits of membership and an opportunity to join online can be found Here.
Lectures are free and in normal times held one Saturday each month in the Discover Bucks Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury HP20 2QP starting at 2.30pm and lasting about one hour plus time for discussion. Refreshments are available after the event.
Saturday November 1st 2025: James Bond, Regional connections to his fictional creation
Speaker: Edward Biddulph (Member BAS Council)
We know Ed for his articles (on behalf of Oxford Archaeology) in Records of Bucks. On this occasion, Ed has a recently Published book looking at the locations chosen by Ian Fleming and the film industry in the creation of the fictional James Bond. Ian had many connections with Buckinghamshire and neighbouring counties. Ed will give us an insight into his research and writing.
Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).
Saturday December 13th: TBA
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Saturday January 10th 2026: TBA
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Saturday February 14th: TBA
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Saturday March 14th:
From Lands to Laundry: Women in the life of Notley Abbey
Speaker: Will Strange (Author of the 2024 BAS publication on Notley Abbey)
‘Allow no woman to enter the monastery’: Bishop John Longland to Abbot Richard Ridge of Notley, 1530.
But women did enter the abbey, and supported it in a wide range of capacities: as donors, worshippers, visitors and servants. And sometimes entered the canons’ lives in less legitimate roles. This talk aims to uncover something of the contribution which women made to the life and work of Notley’s all-male community from its founding in 1162 to its dissolution in 1538.
Isabel Despenser, Countess of Warwick, and one of Notley’s most generous donors. In 1439 she bequeathed to Notley’s shrine at Caversham: ‘a crown of gold made of my chain, weighing twenty-five pounds, and other broken gold in my cabinet; and two tables, the one of St Katherine, the other of St George, the precious stones of which tablets to be set in the said crown’.
Saturday April 11th: TBA
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Saturday May 9th (after the AGM): TBA
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The BAS AGM will start at 14:00 with the Lecture to follow at circa 14:45. 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).