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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250116T193000
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SUMMARY:Marlborough History Society presents: Shaping History: the symbolism of the urban destruction and creation in the period of World War II and its aftermath
DESCRIPTION:Shaping History: the symbolism of the urban destruction and creation in the period of World War II and its aftermath\nSpeaker: Christopher Moule\, Head of History at Marlborough College \n  \nCombining his knowledge of both History and History of Art\, Christopher will talk about the rebuilding of European cities that were destroyed or badly damaged in World War Two. In the war\, thousands of towns and cities suffered badly from aerial bombardment\, shelling\, or other forms of demolition. These included several capital cities\, as well as places of immense cultural and historical value. \n  \nTickets available on the door\nFree for History Society Members and Students\n£5 Non – Members
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/marlborough-history-society-presents-shaping-history-the-symbolism-of-the-urban-destruction-and-creation-in-the-period-of-world-war-ii-and-its-aftermath
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20240830T131212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T162334Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Lest We Forget – Fabian Ware and the Imperial War Graves Commission.
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: The Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission was the brainchild of Fabian Ware\, whose own story and that of this most remarkable achievement are the bones of this talk. Together with some of the finest talents in the kingdom – Rudyard Kipling and Edwin Lutyens to name but two – he fashioned the greatest global memorial known to man. \nSPEAKER: David Du Croz\, Retired Head of History\, Marlborough College; Authority on the First World War. \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free. Membership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here. \n 
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-lest-we-forget-fabian-ware-and-the-imperial-war-graves-commission
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20240830T125246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T172511Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Marlborough by Gaslight
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: “Marlborough by Gaslight” \nOn December 2nd 1997 a “Victorian Extravaganza” was held in Marlborough High Street\, which was closed to traffic. Late night shopping was made available\, and a variety of stalls\, displays and street entertainment provided.  Victorian Marlborough was a very different place to what it is now. The gasworks\, prison\, workhouse\, tanneries\, breweries\, rope works\, and railway stations are all gone but they continue to cast a shadow. \nSPEAKER: Nick Baxter \nNick Baxter is a local historian\, author\, speaker\, tour guide and Marlborough College Summer School tutor. \n  \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free.\nMembership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here. \n 
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-marlborough-by-gaslight
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20240830T124721Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: The RNLI 200 years - 1824 to 2024.
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: “The RNLI 200 years – 1824 to 2024” \nThe Marlborough History Society talk coincides with the 200 years anniversary of when the RNLI was formed. The illustrated talk will narrate the formation and development of the institution from the early 1800s up until the present day. There will also be time for questions and a chance to buy some RNLI souvenirs and Christmas cards. \nSPEAKERS: Ben & Mary Bentley \nDevizes based husband and wife team Mary and Ben Bentley have been fundraisers for the RNLI for over 20 years. Ben spent 32 years in the Royal Navy and Mary was a nurse for 37 years. They started giving presentations 2 years ago\, to numerous groups in Wiltshire and beyond. \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free.\nMembership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here.
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-the-rnli-200-years-1824-to-2024
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T210000
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CREATED:20240207T114254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T141129Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Marlborough’s Hidden Places
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:  Bob Holman \nBob Holman has lived in Marlborough for a number of years and is a semi-retired coffee shop owner (The Food Gallery). After discovering the incredible capabilities of his iPhone camera\, he has developed a passion for black and white photography. \nTOPIC:\nBob Holman is a local photographer who has discovered that there is a wealth of historical features that belong to Marlborough which have been hidden away over the years. A project developed to find and capture on his iPhone what has been hidden away. He has searched for dungeons\, sewers and underground storage areas. The original plan was to try and plot a kind of subterranean map of the ‘alleyways’ underneath Marlborough\, following the unearthing of one some years ago. Recently\, he photographed an abandoned oven at the Castle and Ball Hotel in the High Street\, where he crawled through a small hole in the building to find it as staff waited outside. Bob said: “It was very dark\, very quiet and damp in there. I wouldn’t say I was scared but it is quite a strange feeling. There was definitely a ‘presence’ down there!”. \n  \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free.\nMembership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here.
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-marlboroughs-hidden-places
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T210000
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CREATED:20240207T113752Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Discovering Avebury – Landscape and People
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Avebury – Landscape and People\nSPEAKER: Dr Nick Snashall \nDr Nick Snashall is the National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. She has excavated on prehistoric\, Roman and Medieval sites across Britain and Europe. An expert in the Neolithic and Bronze Age\, her research interests include prehistoric stone tools\, landscape inhabitation and the archaeology of ritual and religion. She is co-director of the Avebury Living with Monuments Project. \nTOPIC:\nAvebury\, its ancient stones and burial mounds have been the subject of speculation and exploration for centuries. In this talk Dr Nick Snashall will reveal the story of a landscape that almost four hundred years after the antiquary John Aubrey first encountered\, it is still giving up its secrets. \n  \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free.\nMembership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here. \n 
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-discovering-avebury-landscape-and-people
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
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SUMMARY:History Society: The Strange Death of Marlborough Union Workhouse
DESCRIPTION:The Strange Death of Marlborough Union Workhouse\nSPEAKER: Nick Baxter \nNick Baxter is a local historian\, author\, lecturer and tour guide \nTOPIC: \nOpened in 1837\, the Marlborough Union Workhouse’s early years were fraught with difficulties. In January 1849 inmates wrecked the kitchen and smashed windows. Boards covered the broken windows\, except in the able bodied men’s ward where the paupers were left to freeze. \nIn 1930 the workhouse became a Public Assistance Institution following the abolition of Poor Law Unions. Buildings were converted to the use of a Children’s Convalescent Home\, and later Hospital and School\, which closed in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s it was re-developed into luxury flats for older people. Controversy erupted when the developer chose to name the development “Digby Court” after a Civil War general who was involved in the sacking of the town in December 1642. After extensive media coverage “Digby Court” was dropped and replaced by “St Luke’s Court” after the patron saint of physicians. Further controversy came when the plaque\, identifying the building as originally a workhouse\, was removed by the developer. This was vigorously resisted and the plaque eventually reinstated. \nThe horrors of the Civil War\, and the sufferings of those incarcerated in the workhouse\, are not the images desired by some. But in attempting to erase those images\, history risks being distorted and sanitised. \n \nThe Marlborough History Society warmly welcomes guests to our talks at £5.00 per person. Students are free.\nMembership to the Marlborough History Society is £15.00 per annum. If you wish to become a member\, please click here. \n 
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-the-strange-death-of-marlborough-union-workhouse
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240215T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20240207T105647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T111620Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: The Ancient Olympic Games and their Modern Successors
DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Olympic Games and their Modern Successors\nSPEAKER: John Osborne \nJohn Osborne taught Classics for many years at Marlborough College. In his retirement\, he has lectured regularly for NADFAS\, now The Arts Society\, and has led numerous historical and cultural tours abroad\, especially to the Middle East and SE Europe. \nTOPIC:\nWhat were the Ancient Olympics really like? Who competed and in what events? Have we idealised them? In what ways do the modern Olympics follow their ancient predecessors\, or not?
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-the-ancient-olympic-games-and-their-modern-successors
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20231218T214110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T214204Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Non Conformist Chapels & Meeting Houses in Wiltshire
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:  \nJames Holden\, researcher and writer on historic buildings for the Wiltshire Building Record \nTOPIC:  \nWiltshire is particularly lucky in the variety and quality of its chapels\, which range from tiny country meeting houses of traditional gable-ended design to large town churches with Classical facades and space for 1000 or more worshippers in their galleried interiors. \nFree for History Society members \n£5 on the door for non-members
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-non-conformist-chapels-meeting-houses-in-wiltshire
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20231218T210828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T210828Z
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SUMMARY:History Society: Crofton Beam Engines ~ A Social History
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER:   \nDavid Throup: retiring from a career in high performance electronic engineering\, a second career helping to maintain some Georgian technology was the obvious choice. What started as a fun thing to do on a Tuesday turned into a multi faceted journey through the mind of James Watt and his impact on this corner of Wiltshire. \nTOPIC:   \nCrofton Beam Engines – its families 1808-1959. Over this time only 13 families have lived and worked to run the engines pumping water to the top of the Kennet and Avon Canal. This is their story interwoven with great technological changes. \nTickets available on the door £5 \nFree entry to History Society Members.
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-crofton-beam-engines-a-social-history
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231823
CREATED:20231218T204104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T171145Z
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SUMMARY:History Society : Progress During the Ages of Victoria & Elizabeth II by Patrick Hickman-Robertson
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER: \nPatrick Hickman-Robertson\, OBE\, is the author of a number of best-selling books on social history and on cinema. He has broadcast and lectured on these topics on both sides of the Atlantic. Co-founder and a former chairman of the Ephemera Society\, he has a special interest in ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life’ as evidence of the past we all share. \nTOPIC:  \nPatrick enquires whether the Victorians or we\, the new Elizabethans\, saw greater change in our daily lives during the two longest reigns. \n\n\n\n\n  \nTickets available on the door £5 \nFree to History Society Members
URL:https://stpetersmarlborough.org.uk/event/history-society-progress-during-the-ages-of-victoria-elizabeth-ii-by-patrick-hickman-robertson
LOCATION:St Peter’s Marlborough\, High Street\, Marlborough\, Wiltshire\, SN8 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History Society
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