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Previous Monthly Meetings

​ 2022

​        
Thursday May 26th                    - Alfred Williams and the Folk Songs of the Upper Thames - Martin Graebe
        
Thursday April 28th                   - A New Market Cross - improving Malmesbury town centre - Terry Fox
        Thursday March 24th                - What can we do about climate change? - David Head
        Thursday March 10th                - Art of Deception or Fakes and Forgeries - Marilyn Bishop2021
        Thursday February 24th          - The world's oldest family tree, found in the Cotswolds - John Hammond
​       Thursday February 10th          - Malmesbury Twinning: Past and Future   Julia Bowen
         Thursday January 27th            -  The Work of the Fire and Rescue Service-Support Officer from Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and                                                                             Rescue Service - Jamie Johnstone
         Thursday January 6th               - 'Bang up to the Elephant’  Fools' Gold (by Zoom)

2021
         Thursday November 23rd       - The Discomforts of Bath - Dickon Povey   
         Thursday October 28th            - Malmesbury Foodbank - Dick Gray
         Thursday September 25th       - REDD in the Green Hills of Africa - Chris Tuite       
         Thursday 
June 24th                   - Fields of Battle - Lands of Peace - Mike Shiel
         Thursday June 10th                   - Climate Change and Planet Earth - David Head
         Thursday May 13th                    - A programme of songs and their accompanying stories - Steve and Carol Robson
         Thursday May 27th                    - From wildlife photography to saving the cheetah! - Alison Mees
         Thursday April 22nd                 - The Work of Marie Curie - Riona Houghton 
         Thursday April 8th                    - Malmesbury in the news from the 1830s - Susan Mockler
         Thursday ​March 25th               - Poetry, Feminism and Creativity  - Lesley Saunders (in conversation with Sue Hammond)
         Thursday March 11th               - The Cleveland Connection: revisiting the Intriguing Story of Malmesbury’s Oilmen - Sue                                                                                 Poolman 
          Thursday February  25th         - Ritual and Belief during the time of Stonehenge - John Hammond
          Thursday February 11th          - Graffiti Through the Ages - Michael Lewis
          Thursday ​January 28th            - Oliver Cromwell and his effect on modern democracy - Howard Robinson
          Thursday January 7th              - Brazil - Travels through unknown territory reveal the best kept exotic secrets - Mandy                                                                                  Dobson
2020                                                          
          Thursday November 26th       - The History of the Village Blacksmith - Hector Cole MBE
          Thursday November 5th         - Slum School and Safari -  Janette and Jonathan Barstow
          Thursday October 22nd           - Live Longer Better with the Optimal Ageing Programme - Sir Muir Gray
                                                                    How to stay well and increase physical and mental wellbeing
          Thursday September 24th      - The Work of Wiltshire Air Ambulance: ‘We Save Lives’ - Roger Heafield
          Thursday August 20th             - Bradenstoke Priory - its recent History  -  Mark Thomas (Zoom meeting)
          Friday July 17th                         - Bow in the Cloud  -  history of the vineyard -  Sophie Willingale  (Zoom meeting)
          Thursday  June 18th                 - Coronavirus - Phil Yates (Zoom meeting)
          Thursday February 27th         - Dickens in Wiltshire   -  The author's life and times - Dr Keith Hooper
          Thursday January 23rd            - Life as an expedition doctor  -  Phil Yates  working as a doctor in extreme locations

2019        
          
          Thursday 28th November      - The Beauty and Uses of Trees - Hugh Angus, Dendrologist (U3A Member)
          Thursday 24th October          - The Early History of Penguin Books   - Barry Edwards  (A paperback revolution) 
          Thursday 26th September     - The View from the Wings - Brian Freeland
          Thursday 27th June                 -  Cyber Crime - Lee Stripe, Digital Investigations and Intelligence Unit, Wiltshire Police
          Thursday 23rd May                  - Wellboring – Water for 100,000 via 100 wells - Nigel Linacre
          Thursday 25th April                - AGM and "Chavenage House and guests throughout the ages" Caroline Lowsley-Williams  
          Thursday 28th March              - The Cleveland Experience
 - the story of Malmesburians who emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in the                                                                       19th century - Susan Poolman
          
Thursday 28th February          - Bloodhound SSC - the story behind the building of a car to run at 1000 mph - Jonathan Barstow
2018

         
Thursday June 28th                 - 'The Doorway Project' - Lisa Lewis
         
Thursday May 24th                 - 'Traditional Craft to Technological Innovation' - Andrew Poynton
         Thursday April 26th                - 'Medical Detection Dogs' by Danielle  Mills
         Thursday March 22nd            - '
Snatched from Danger’' - Deborah Poneskis. Personal experiences of life in the Army.
         Thursday February 22nd       - 'Patagonia - A Welsh Journey' - Mike Lewis

2017

         Thursday November 23rd     - 'The Toxic Trio. Mesopotamia 1914-16' - Tank Nash
         Thursday October 26th         - 'Whales and Dolphins - a look into their world' - Bernard Purrier
         Thursday September 28th   - 'Vision, Perceptual and optical illusions' - Howard Robinson
                                                                A look at optical illusions
         Thursday June 22nd               - 'Magistrates in the judicial system - are they needed?' - Michael Kay JP
         Thursday May 25th               - 'The Prisoners of Hope' - Helen Landau  -  The birth of aviation
         Thursday April 27th              -  'Signature Tunes' - Malcolm Lewis
         Thursday March 23rd           - 'Where did I go?' - Polly Williamson
         Thursday February 23rd      - 'The History of Herbal Medicine' - Caroline Sheldrick

2016

         Thursday November 24th    - 'My Life in Russia Before and After Perestoika' - Marsha Lees
         Thursday October 27th        - 'Mercy Ships' - Angela Grist - Mercy Ships
         Thursday September 22nd   - 'The Making of Casablanca' - Edward Barham
         Thursday July 28th                 - 'The History of Art': Post War to Today - Paul Deacon
         Thursday June 23rd                - An Elizabethan Blockbuster: 'A Knack to Know a Knave' at the Rose - Dr. Tim Hammond
         Thursday May 26th                 - Suzann Valadon: Model and Artist - Paul Chapman
         Thursday April 28th                - 'The Roman Baths at Bath' - Bernard Purrier
         Thursday March 24th             - 'This is Jazz' - Alan Cornell
         Thursday February 25th        - 'The Doolittle Raid' - David Head
 
2015
         Thursday November 26th  - The Cotswold Canals; past, present and future - Theo Stening - Cotswold Canals Trust
         Thursday October 22nd      - 20th Century Western Art - Paul Deacon
         Thursday September 24th  - The History of the Greener Guns Company from 1829 and some of the inventions, not always involving guns.
                                                                                                                                  - Graham N. Greener - Greener Gun Company

         Thursday July 23rd               - An Introduction to Global Warming in Science and Society - Richard Erskine
                                                              If you missed the talk, or would like the opportunity to look at the facts
                                                              in more detail, then you can find a copy of the talk here.


         Thursday June 25th             - What Happened at Chernobyl - Robert MacLachlan
 
        Thursday May 28th              - Driving safely on rural roads - Gordon Burley - Cirencester Advanced Motorists website
         Thursday April 23rd             
- M&D U3A AGM - no speaker
         Thursday March 26th          - Sevington Victorian School - Dinah Starkey - Sevington Victorian School website

         Thursday February 26th     - The History of 20th Century Western Art - Paul Deacon
         Thursday January 22nd       - The Witches of 17th Century Malmesbury - Tony McAleavy 

2014
         Thursday November 27th - River Barn - Nicki & Finn Spicer - River Barn website
         Thursday October 23rd      - History of Western Art - Paul Deacon
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