Programme

Hear about the building of Peterborough’s first purpose-built hospital, also a war memorial, and how it adapted to changes in Peterborough and in medicine.

Our AGM also takes place prior to the September talk. See News Page for more details.

Sex, murder, suicide and intrigue! Three stories of riots in Peterborough, Deeping Gate…and Werrington, from personal drama which spilled into the community.

Westings Meadow was once a place between Helpston, Maxey, Etton, Glinton and Northborough: a 500 acre flood meadow through which the Maxey Cut now runs.

Created 70 years ago its history is fascinating, and it is rich in hidden heritage and biodiversity.

John Clare wrote a first-hand description of a walk through this landscape 185 years ago.

One of the things that everyone thinks they know about Oliver Cromwell is that he banned the festive season in the 1640s.

Is it true?

Alan will talk about how using information from one helps to give context to facts from the other.

Collyweston Palace was a grand late 15th Century Tudor manor in Northamptonshire, which was the favoured country seat of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, but it was lost for hundreds of years.

Hear the story of its rediscovery thanks to the work of the member of the Collyweston Historical and Preservation Society.

A light hearted talk by a typewriter mechanic for 2 years in the late 1960s, illustrated by a display of some of his typewriters.

Ecologist Phillip has been working to maximise the biodiversity potential at Whittlesey for the last 30 years and established Kings Dyke nature reserve over 25 years.

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John Betjeman made the unpopular fashionable and was a pioneer in the social impact of buildings.

The talk explores the churches, houses and even pleasure piers he explored in his Architecturally based guides.

All you need to know about the life and work of the peasant poet John Clare, prophet of the environmental movement, with some of his most famous poetry.

A potted history of over 150 years of skating in the Fens, using some of the characters and stories associated with the sport.

Clare’s family – market gardeners, cooks and bakers – sparked a lifelong fascination with the stories behind what we eat.

She is a food historian, and an expert pork pie ‘raiser’ whose stories connect ingredients, traditions, and people in ways to bring the past deliciously to life.