Programme – 2025/26

DateSpeaker and Topic
17-0ct-25 Chris Scott / The Battle of Trafalgar
07-Nov-25 Timothy Brain / Gunpowder Plot
21-Nov-25 Gill White / The Hugely Huggable History of the Teddy Bear
05-Dec-25 Christmas Lunch
19-Dec-25 Mike Pointer / Joseph Lovibond — Salisbury Brewer
02-Jan-26 No meeting
16-Jan-26David Parsons / The Merchant Navy in WW2
06-Feb-26Philip Wilkinson / Police and Crime Commissioner
20-Feb-26Kay Townsend / My Life on the Fairground
06-Mar-26 David Bickerton/ Operation Torch – The Invasion of French North Africa.
20-Mar-26Richard Rickett / A Buzz in the Garden: Gardening for Bees
03-Apr-26Good Friday — No meeting
17-Apr-26Bob Rogers / One Foot in Paradise: Mull and Iona
01-May-26Marc Heighway / Hidden in Plain Sight: Reminders of WW2 in the New Forest
15-May-26Andy Larkham / History of Computing
05-Jun-26 Kevin Patience / Operation Mincemeat and the Man Who Never Was
19-Jun-26 Summer Lunch
03-Jul-26 Suzanne Kempe / The New Forest — A landscape shaped by the ancient tradition of commoning
17-Jul-26 AGM
7-Aug-26Professor Neville Stanton / The Road Collision Investigation Project – A new approach to road safety
21-Aug-26
4-Sep-26
18-Sep-26 Dr Juliane Kaminski – Humans and their Dogs
02-Oct-26
16-Oct-26
06-Nov-26
20-Nov-26
04-Dec-26
18-Dec-26