Ken Knowles, the Town Crier of Lichfield, makes a welcome return. He gives a personal and social history from the 1950s onwards, explaining how he grew from being a nervous child to a town crier with lots of confidence through the power of . . . wearing a different hat!
* Meeting cancelled due to Covid-19.

Phil takes a look at our past, from a walker's viewpoint, finding in the present landscape, Stone Age tracks, Roman ways, packhorse routes and turnpike roads.
* Meeting cancelled due to Covid-19.

Martin Leeson is an ex-meteorologist who worked at the Halley base in Antarctica for two years at the end of the 1970s. Martin will be talking about he history of the base, what it was like living there, its purpose and more recent developments.

Photo by Hugh Broughton Architects

Most of us have probably attended the Cosford Air Show at sometime, but have you ever wanted to know more about the airbase. Chris will tell us about the history of the base, what it was like living there, its purpose and more recent developments.

Well, was Nelson our greatest mariner? Make up your own mind as the facts, figures, battles, personalities and good old British derring-do are presented by Max, dressed up as a French Admiral!

Dorothy looks behind the history of pub signs all around the country from earliest times to the present and tells stories behind some of our more unusual signs.

Ned explains how almshouses were used to help the poor of the community and where they can still be found in the Black Country and further afield.

The true story of one man’s resistance against the Nazi occupation of his native Norway during the Second World War, as told by his daughter Ellie Targett. Sevn Somme (pictured) became a leading agent for the Allies recruiting and training more than 60 agents before his arrest by the Gestapo in 1944.