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Scent in the Garden; with Timothy Walker, lecturer, botanist, gardener, author.
Current nominated charities are:
- Mary’s Meals www.marysmeals.org.uk and
- Parkinsons UK www.parkinsons.org.uk
Current nominated charities are:
- Mary’s Meals www.marysmeals.org.uk and
- Parkinsons UK www.parkinsons.org.uk
A Bulb For Each Month Of The Year; with Adam Kirtland, Garden Writer & Podcaster – @viewfromthepottingbench.
Current nominated charities are:
- Mary’s Meals www.marysmeals.org.uk and
- Parkinsons UK www.parkinsons.org.uk
Planting Pots For Winter Interest & Spring Joy; with Harriet Rycroft, Ex-Head Gardener at Whichford Pottery, now a free range gardener, speaker & writer.
In 1981 when Charles Harpur-Crewe died, with inheritance tax due, drastic action was required to save Calke. Bringing Calke Abbey to the National Trust was a complex process involving local councils, national heritage organisations, Parliament, HMRC and notable individuals, some with great leverage but quiet voices. The journey from there to opening as an NT special place is traced in this presentation.
Adam’s Journey; with Adam Frost, award winning Garden Designer, TV presenter, author and speaker. TICKET ONLY EVENT
Discover the amazing rags-to-riches story of Sir Richard Arkwright in this fascinating talk by Mike Newbold
Kate Barnes takes us through a fly’s journey of finding, colonising, and developing on a dead body and the information they can provide to a forensic entomologist.
MEMBERS CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
Festive Fun & Supper With The Potty Plotters; For members and their guests.
Kath Reynolds reflects on those “must-have” latest creations from K-Tel, Ronco, Pifco, etc., that you just had to have, but which were mostly pretty useless. Lots of kitchen gadgets to help you chop and pulverise, but don’t forget your Carmen rollers, girls!
Celia Sanger ‘s family’s 19th-century journey from rural Northamptonshire to the Birmingham Back to Backs, with the difficulties of surviving the harsh realities of early 20th-century life in the courtyards.
The markets and fairs we know today are mere shadows of their remarkable past. Paul Sturgess attempts to revive the noise, excitement, and even the filth of these important aspects of our economic history.
The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, that developed after World War II. There was no direct military engagement between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, as Jed Jaggard reminds us, this period was anything but “cold”.
– Maria Picken – TBC