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Programme of Talks for 2023
Yesterday’s Childhood
Not Just Napoleon and Jane Austen
Our June talk is all about the weird and wonderful happenings in 1815.
Thursday June 8th at the museum at 7.30pm
Join us at the Players Theatre on Monday May 22nd for a very special talk by Jane Robinson all about the Suffragists’ Great Pilgrimage in 1913 and Thame’s role in it.
Join Marie-Louise Kerr as she takes us on an illustrated tour of the famous, infamous and less well known people, whose contributions nationally and internationally led to their lives being marked with a Blue Plaque on local buildings around South Oxfordshire.
6 Women of the civil war. A wonderful story of the brave and often fearless women who risked all to save their families during the English civil war
Tom Petch. Speed Aggression Surprise – The Untold story of the Origin of the SAS
Wednesday 8th February : 7:30pm : Thame Players Theatre : £10 per ticket
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| Monthly Talks Programme 2023 | ||
| February 8th | TAL/Thame Museum Author Event
Players Theatre, Thame Speed, Aggression, Surprise The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS |
Tom Petch
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| March 16th | Six Warrior Women of the
English Civil Wars 1642-51 |
Stephen Barclay |
| April 13th
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Famous Local Folk : the people behind the Blue Plaques in South Oxon | Marie-Louise Kerr |
| May 18th
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How to Be a 21st Century Gardener | Tim Walker |
| June 8th
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Not Just Napoleon and Jane Austen – memories from 1815 | Melanie King |
| July 6th | The Tennis Champion who escaped the Nazis | Felice Hardy |
| August | Summer break | |
| Sept 7th | Memories of the Vale – life before the coming of the railway | Julie Ann Godson
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| Oct 5th | Yesterday’s Childhood | Bill King |
| Nov 9th | Stories of Conscientious Objectors in WWI in Oxfordshire | Sue Smith |