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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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13/04/22

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


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. 

 
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