Our Spring programme of talks launches on Friday 26th January 2024 with a presentation on ‘Ford End Watermill’ at Ivinghoe by Chris Tugby, the Mill Manager.
Chris’s talk will start at the slightly later time of 8pm, following our AGM which will begin at 7.15 pm.
Further talks this Spring are planned as follows:
Friday 23rd February, 7.30pm: ‘John Hampden MP – Patriot or Rebel?’ A talk by Beth Rogers, Chair of The John Hampden Society. John Hampden was born around 1595, a member of the Hampden family at Great Hampden and a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He entered Parliament in 1619 and by 1626 was the MP for Wendover. As a result of his resistance to Charles I’s arbitrary government and his stand against tyranny, Hampden became known as the ‘Father of the People’ and ‘The Patriot’. His statue stands in Market Square, Aylesbury and another is in the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament, where he is annually commemorated as one of ‘The Five Members’. Several monuments to him exist in Buckinghamshire, at Great Hampden, Honor End and also at Chalgrove in Oxfordshire. Hampden Park was named after him, as well as many towns in the USA, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Hampden’s life was certainly momentous, Beth will have much to share with us and I suppose not many of us are likely to have a Society named after us which is still flourishing almost 400 years after we have left!
Friday 22nd March, 7.30 pm: ‘Agricultural Labourers’. Further details to follow nearer the date
All events will be held in the Wingrave Community Centre. Free for members of the Heritage Association; £4 on the door for visitors,
