Category: History
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Origins and Causes of WW1 Analysed
Our History Group met on Monday 01 December 2025 to continue their analysis of the origins and causes of World War 1. The Group has taken the book “The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914” by Richard J Evans as its guide and there is much to consider in its 840+ pages. The volume was published…
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Family History Group Gets Results
Our Family History Group met on Friday 07 March 2025 for one of their regular fortnightly meetings. As we see from the many television programmes on genealogy, and also on the historical background programmes, much of this work is done today using computers. Fortunately, there is strong technical support to help the group members navigate…
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Preston Road is part of Metroland
Our speaker at our Monthly Meeting on 26 February 2025 was our own member Chris who is also part of Preston Community Library. Please note that we are speaking of Preston between Wembley and Kenton rather than Preston in Lancashire! Image courtesy of Ordinance Survey 1914 Chris described how a quiet corner of Middlesex noted…
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The American Civil War (Part 2 of 3)
Our course of lectures on the American Civil War continued on Friday 28 April 2023 with a look at the conduct of the war itself. Our lecturer, Harry Goldstein who has a postgraduate qualification in American History, described the war as Horror at Short Range, showing a famous painting. This was face to face fighting,…
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The American Civil War (part 1 of 3)
Our three part series on the American Civil War began on Friday 14 April 2023. The sessions are led by Harry Goldstein who has a post graduate degree in American History. The three sessions will deal with: 1) How the war started; 2) The war itself; and 3) A review of the positions at the…