Contact Name 1	Chris Gregson
Contact Telephone 1	01473 630927
Contact Name 2	see "More Information for Members"
Contact Telephone 2	see "More Information for Members"
Email prefix	history4fun
Frequency/Day/Time	3rd Thursday, 10.30am
Venue	Martlesham Pavilion, The Drift, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 3PL.
Cost
Vacancies	No

Come and join a friendly group of people who are interested in history.

Pick your own historical person, place or event to find out more about and then feedback to the group in a relaxed, friendly environment.

There are usually two talks a month.

Please keep checking this web page in case we have to resume meeting by Zoom.

2026 

15 Jan - Portraits of Elizabeth I, The Art of Power Dressing as Propaganda

19 Feb - The end of Roman Britain and the coming of the Anglo-Saxons

19 Mar - Walking the Streets of London 1716

16 Apr - Richard III, From Villain to Hero

21 May - Suffolk Swords

18 June - Karl the Last & Mary Seacole

16 July - 1943: from Casablanca to Rome - the Mediterranean Campaigns & The Last Men on the Moon; The Astronauts of Apollo 17 - Dec 1972

17 Sept - The Death/Murder of the Duke of Gloucester at Bury St. Edmunds

15 Oct - The Plague   

19 Nov – Decemberist Revolution & The curious case of the woman who gave birth to rabbits

17 Dec - Xmas Lunch

2027

21 Jan – The History of the English Channel and its Influence on Medieval England & England 1217  

18 Feb – The British Prime Minister (all the PMs & their place in the history of England). 

18 Mar – Vicky Empress Frederick & ‘Violence, crime, arson and open rebellion.’ The Suffragettes.

15 Apr - Strapped for Cash in the Early Eighteenth Century & Mad as a Hatter

          20 May - Visit from Suffolk Swords     

17 Jun - Churchill & John Sayer, Cook for Charles II

15 Jul - The Real Falstaff

August - Summer break

16 September - Grigori Rasputin

         21 October - The English Reformation, what was that all about?

Proposed talks for 2027

 Letters to a refugee 1939-1940

Britain's Secret Defences WW2