Speaker is Marie Rowe. Marie talks about her life changing experiences, which led to a fulfilling career in the film industry.  Stories and anecdotes from casting actors in films such as RainMan, Disclosure and Good Morning Vietnam. Read more

Speaker is Cat Weatherill. Cat will tell us the real story of Mother Goose, after she was told by a child, that she was too old to be a princess. A celebratory talk about claiming womanly power in later life. Read more

Speaker is Alan Rogers MBE. Alan will be giving us humorous anecdotes of his time in the police and also his career, including time working in India. Read more

Speaker is Jo Golby. Following on from Jo's talk in 2024, We learn about the products used to improve the appearance of people throughout history. Jo will be dressed as a Victorian ladies maid and will bring with her a collection of fashionable unctions and lotions that men and women put on their skin. Some… Read more

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Speaker is Gillian White The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE Aristocrat, politician, rake and revolutionary: William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire, is certainly one of the more colourful of seventeenth-century noblemen. So wicked was he, that an Italian visitor to Restoration England described him as ‘the most dissolute man in London’. Yet Cavendish is… Read more