| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Geoff Bayley
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| Leader: | |
| Group email: | History group |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 1:45 pm-3:45 pm 1st Monday of the month. |
| Venue: | Holy Innocents' Community Hall |
| Cost: | £2 or £3 depending on speaker costs. |
The History Group hold a variety of Meetings combining Outside Speakers, Members' Research, Day Visits and an enjoyable Christmas lunch and quiz at our December meeting.
Each year we also include a Study Tour by coach for those who are interested.
The History Group does not have a Waiting list!
We operate a pre-booking system for meetings to ensure everyone who wants to come can do so.
The maximum attendance at meetings in the hall is restricted to 80 members for Health and Safety reasons.
The History Group is a member of The Worcestershire Local History Forum whose Website and Newsletter are available for you to look at here.
| Programme 2026 | ||
| Meetings | Study Tour / Day Trips | |
| Mon 5 Jan 2026 | Max Keen: Gordon of Khartoum | |
| Mon 2 Feb 2026 | Paul Harding: Saxons | |
| Mon 2 Mar 2026 | Nigel Metcalfe:Maritime Disasters around British and Irish Shores. | |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | Easter Bank holiday: No Meeting | |
| Mon 4 May 2026 | Bank holiday: No Meeting | Visit to Chatsworth TBC |
| Mon 1 Jun 2026 | Gill White: Chatsworth and the the Cavendish Family 1550 - 1850. | |
| Mon 6 Jul 2026 | Mary Bodfish: Mad Dogs and Maria Marten | |
| Mon 3 Aug 2026 | Richard Churchley:Market Towns: their history, function and importance. | |
| Mon 7 Sep 2026 | Mike Loftus: Trampled under foot but never crushed. The story of Kidderminster's rise to become a major force in the Carpet Industry. | |
| Mon 5 Oct 2026 | Alan Hill: Blackpool Tower, a Tower for all Seasons. | |
| Mon 2 Nov 2026 | Nigel Metcalfe:The Victorian Christmas - a 19th Century reinvention. | |
| Mon 7 Dec 2026 | Christmas Lunch | |
| History Programme _ 2025 | Meetings | Study tour / Day trips |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 6 Jan | Paul Harding: Empire Day | |
| Mon 3 feb | Alan Hill: The Brunells, father and son | |
| Mon 3 March | Nigel Metcalfe: The History of Biscuits | |
| Mon 7 April | Paul Norgate: Doomed youth, the life, death and surprising afterlife of war poet Wilfred Owen | |
| April May | Day trip postponed | |
| Mon 5 May | Bank Holiday no meeting | |
| Mon 2 June | Gill White: John Churchill the First Duke of Marlborough | |
| Mon 7 July | Philip Bowen: The Seventeenth Century when the world was turned upside down | |
| Mon 4 Aug | Colin Millett the wonder of Worcester porcelain | |
| Mon 1 Sept | Heather Flack: Stanley Baldwin | |
| September | Visit to Yorkshire, 21st - 24th September | |
| Mon 6 Oct | Mary Bodfish: The Merry Monarchs part 2 | Day Trip TBA |
| Mon 3 Nov | Max Keen: Pirates fact and fiction | |
| Mon 1 Dec | Christmas Lunch at the Pines Golf Club |