Meetings take place at Hollinsclough Chapel Hall starting at 7.30. Doors are open from 6.45 so please come early if you can, especially on the first night when membership cards are issued. You don’t need to be a member to come along, just turn up and enjoy the evening.
History Live 2020/21 Season – list of speakers
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Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
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Sept 2nd 2020 |
Glynn Waite |
Railways |
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Oct 7th 2020 |
Christine Gregory |
Bradford Dale |
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Nov 4th 2020 |
Simon Harris |
Radbourne Hall |
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Dec 2nd 2020 |
Danny Wells |
The Victorians and the Christmas Season |
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Feb 3rd 2021 |
Alan Weeks |
Gun Moor History |
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Mar 3rd 2021 |
Margaret Black and Eric Wood |
Calke Abbey and the Harpur Crewes |
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April7th 2021 |
Jennifer Horseman (from Creswell Crags) |
Iron Age Archaeology |
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May 5th 2021 |
To be confirmed….. |
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History Live 2019/20 Season – list of speakers
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
| Sept 4th 2019 |
Pauline Dolan | Looking after the vulnerable in the 16th Century |
| Oct 2nd 2019 |
Roly Smith | The Mass Trespass |
| Nov 6th 2019 |
Joe Perry | Iron Age Torcs |
| Dec 4th 2019 |
Peter Corbett | The Air Ambulance |
| Feb 5th 2020 |
David Cliffe | A Moorland Album: Edwardian Moorlands in photographs |
| March 4th 2020 |
Catherine Parker Heath, South West Peak |
New discoveries at Dale Mine, Warslow |
| April 1st 2020 |
Richard Gregory | Hartington from 1933-55 |
| May 6th 2020 |
Ian Parker Heath | Pre-history: its story |
2018/19 season – list of speakers
| Date | Speaker | Subject |
| Sept 5th 2018 | Ann Cantrell | Glorious Grasslands |
| Oct 3rd 2018 | Neil Collingwood | Public Houses in the Area |
| Nov 7th 2018 | Catherine Parker Heath | Barns, Buildings and Heritage Items in the South West Peak |
| Dec 5th 2018 | Ray Perry | Rudyard Lake |
| Feb 6th 2019 | Trevor Gilman | Buxton Opera House |
| March 6th 2019 | Michael Parkin | Chimney Sweeps and Climbing Boys |
| April 3rd 2019 | Doug Bradbury | Life and Times of a Farrier |
| May 1st 2019 | Sue Woore | The “Hays” |
2017/18 Speakers
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Date |
Name |
Topic |
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Sept 6th 2017 |
Nigel Coulton |
“As the Bishop said to the Nun!” Bishop Roger Northbury’s visits to the nuns in his diocese, and his not very complimentary reports. |
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Oct 4th 2017 |
Tony Bonson |
Watermills on the River Dove and its tributaries. |
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Nov 1st 2017 |
Simon Harris |
The Cheshire Gentry and Islam in the late C16th: new discoveries at Adlington Hall |
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Dec 6th2017 |
Christine Robinson (retired housekeeper at Chatsworth) |
Christmas at Chatsworth |
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Feb 7th 2018 |
Andy Bentham |
Secret Marks in Churches to ward off Evil |
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Mch 7th 2018 |
Steve Booth |
Staffordshire and the Coming of the Tudors in 1485 |
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April 4th 2018 |
Byron Machin |
Local Coal and Copper Mining |
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May 2nd 2018 June 6th 2018 |
Austin Knott Steve Booth |
Aircraft wrecks in the Peak District Staffordshire and the Coming of the Tudors in 1485
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