EVENTs
VISITS BY THE TRANSPORT HISTORY GROUP 2020
Coronavirus update
This year's programme has been cancelled.
Coronavirus update
This year's programme has been cancelled.
FURTHER AFIELD
South Stoke Historical Society
South Stoke Historical Society has produced a book on South Stoke’s history. The book was originally started more than 20 years ago by the original Historical Society, with several versions of unpublished writings and has now been edited and up-dated. South Stoke’s Past- a Miscellany is a 269 page book recording aspects of South Stoke’s past. There are 14 chapters to dip in and out of on subjects such as the Chapel, Education, the Railway, the Roads and River and the Great Fire of South Stoke in 1905. Photographs and maps old and new abound throughout the chapters.
Copies are available from Amazon Books UK. The cost is £10 plus postage. Once on the Amazon Books’ site, put in “South Stoke” and the book will appear. A copy will be on display in Goring Library.
British Modern Military History Society
BMMHS has a programme of talks via Zoom. There are normally two a month, one if the afternoon and one in the evening. For details please see their website www.bmmhs.org
BMMHS will launch its first book, Glimpses of War, on VE Day, 8 May. Proceeds from the book will go to the charity Blind Veterans UK The book is published through Amazon. BMMHS members and friends have written down their own and their family members' experiences of war time, military or civilian, any war.
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk
South Stoke Historical Society
South Stoke Historical Society has produced a book on South Stoke’s history. The book was originally started more than 20 years ago by the original Historical Society, with several versions of unpublished writings and has now been edited and up-dated. South Stoke’s Past- a Miscellany is a 269 page book recording aspects of South Stoke’s past. There are 14 chapters to dip in and out of on subjects such as the Chapel, Education, the Railway, the Roads and River and the Great Fire of South Stoke in 1905. Photographs and maps old and new abound throughout the chapters.
Copies are available from Amazon Books UK. The cost is £10 plus postage. Once on the Amazon Books’ site, put in “South Stoke” and the book will appear. A copy will be on display in Goring Library.
British Modern Military History Society
BMMHS has a programme of talks via Zoom. There are normally two a month, one if the afternoon and one in the evening. For details please see their website www.bmmhs.org
BMMHS will launch its first book, Glimpses of War, on VE Day, 8 May. Proceeds from the book will go to the charity Blind Veterans UK The book is published through Amazon. BMMHS members and friends have written down their own and their family members' experiences of war time, military or civilian, any war.
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk