2021
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/09/21
Railway heritage of the North-West
Paul Salveson
Paul is a visiting professor at the universities of Bolton & Huddersfield with a PhD degree in Lancashire dialect literature.
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21/10/21
Myles Standish - Man of Mystery
Bill Walker
Find out about the local connections of this historic figure.
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18/11/21
Your 17th Century ancestors attitudes to Sex, fornication and Adultery
Dr Alan Crosby
What did your ancestors get up to … possibly bastardy, fornication, adultery, and much else and much worse! There’s no need to be ashamed – after all, the highest and greatest in the land were hardly guardians of morality (think of the 14 illegitimate offspring of King Charles II).
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02/12/21
Christmas Quiz
Join us for our annual Christmas Quiz.
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2022
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20/01/22
Member Contributions - Show and Tell
Bring family heirlooms and tell us about them
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17/02/22
Children in the Mines
Alan Davies
How children were treated whilst working in a mine before 1842, and after that date
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17/03/22
AGM
Propaganda and Reportage in the Great War
Mike Coyle
Understand how the media influenced the public during the First World Wall
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Railway heritage of the North-West
Paul Salveson
Paul is a visiting professor at the universities of Bolton & Huddersfield with a PhD degree in Lancashire dialect literature.
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21/10/21
Myles Standish - Man of Mystery
Bill Walker
Find out about the local connections of this historic figure.
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18/11/21
Your 17th Century ancestors attitudes to Sex, fornication and Adultery
Dr Alan Crosby
What did your ancestors get up to … possibly bastardy, fornication, adultery, and much else and much worse! There’s no need to be ashamed – after all, the highest and greatest in the land were hardly guardians of morality (think of the 14 illegitimate offspring of King Charles II).
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02/12/21
Christmas Quiz
Join us for our annual Christmas Quiz.
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2022
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20/01/22
Member Contributions - Show and Tell
Bring family heirlooms and tell us about them
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17/02/22
Children in the Mines
Alan Davies
How children were treated whilst working in a mine before 1842, and after that date
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17/03/22
AGM
Propaganda and Reportage in the Great War
Mike Coyle
Understand how the media influenced the public during the First World Wall
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13/04/22
Astley Hall It's Park and it's People.
John Ball
Hear about this 16th Century House and it's Families,
Astley Hall It's Park and it's People.
John Ball
Hear about this 16th Century House and it's Families,
11//05/22
Tales from the Crypt
Frances Rafferty
Splendid Cemeteries and their remarkable residents
Tales from the Crypt
Frances Rafferty
Splendid Cemeteries and their remarkable residents
08/06/22
The Lancashire Dialect – why is it funny?
Sid Calderbank
A collection of songs, stories and poems in, and about, the dialect, its history and development over the last 500 years.
The Lancashire Dialect – why is it funny?
Sid Calderbank
A collection of songs, stories and poems in, and about, the dialect, its history and development over the last 500 years.
