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The aim is to help members extend their own family trees by developing family history research skills using a range of sources, both paper records and internet sites. Occasional visits to record offices. New Members Welcome. Please contact Jean Stirk via the link below |
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Contact : Jean Stirk |
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The group discusses all areas of the history of art from the Classical period to Modernism. Members choose the topics and the selection is stimulated by exhibitions or by their personal passions. Each member is asked to introduce one subject each U3A year and to guide the group’s debate. A wide range of projected images is employed to focus study. |
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Contact: Lynn Mead |
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The group covers all modes of transport on land, water and air. but motoring is our main area of interest. Members prepare one talk a year and previous examples included: Challenger Inquest, Morgan 4-wheel cars, London taxis, Diesel electric railways in Ceylon, History of Vauxhall, Rolls Royce car engines, History of tyres, Chevrolet Corvette, Ferguson tractors and Light Railways in Belgium. We have 10 meetings per year & members prepare a talk yearly followed by a discussion. |
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Contact : Michael Harwood |
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This group will look at our industrial heritage exploring areas of interest and its impact on social life and society today. The emphasis will be on the South East of England. Members can work individually or together to research topics of interest and where possible visits will be arranged to support the activity of the group. Topics studied last year were the rope making, coal mining and ship building in Kent, mills on the River Darenth, and precision engineering. |
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Contact : Janet Jones |
Sue Christy’s Powerpoint presentation “Industries along the River Darenth”. |
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This group covers topics drawn from all aspects of industrial archaeology and history. Wherever appropriate and practicable there are visits to sites, normally in Kent or London. Members work in pairs or singly to research and present the topics and to lead visits. Interest rather than expertise is needed. |
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Contact : Rob Weighill & Mike Forrester |
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Members of the group take it in turns, in pairs, to select a local village or town of interest. They make a presentation to the others on the points of interest; historical, architectural and the like, at a first meeting, and then lead the group on a visit to that location for the second meeting the following month. |
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Contact : Stephen Hale |
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This group started in September 2005. On a rota basis, we arrange visits to London and surrounding areas, including guided tours, on a bi-monthly basis. Coffee and lunch breaks are regarded as essential! On occasions, we make up numbers for guided tours. Please give us your names if you can only commit to an occasional visit. The other month we meet locally to have details of the tours. |
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Contact : Diana Goymer |
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In this group we split into sub-groups of 2, 3 or 4 members, who select a subject, carry out research and present their findings at a house meeting. This is followed one month later by a visit. |
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Contact : Mike Davies |
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This group, now in its 18th year, focuses on all forms of military conflict from the earliest times to wars within living memory. Members choose a topic for individual research and spend a morning presenting it to the group. Meetings normally take place between October and March. |
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Contact : Nick White |
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The group looks at all aspects of history, with a special interest in the arts and literature of the period under study. Members of the group take it in turns to give a presentation, usually PowerPoint, on as aspect of the period which interests them. We also have an annual celebratory lunch with food representing the period under discussion. We also make annual visits, sometimes abroad. During the coming year we will be looking at the end of the Victorian era and moving on to the period up to 1914. |
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Contact : David Milman |
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