SIHG Talk: Sources of Energy in SE England (Leatherhead)
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Talk by Tristan Asprey. Details to follow
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SIHG Talk: 200 Years of Industrial Design - and why we love Retro (Leatherhead)
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Talk by John Colby-Griffiths. Details TBC
SIHG Talk: "Wind Tunnels and Slide Rules: Women Engineers of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough"by Dr Nina Baker, OBE (Zoom)
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SIHG Talk: "Obsession, Enterprise and Death: the Industrial Revolution and three men's lives' by Dr Frances Hurd (Zoom)
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The industrial revolution created both winners and losers. In this talk, we’ll hear about on three men who clawed their way to success during the industrial revolution - while their workers in both mills and mines endured lives of extraordinary hardship
SIHG Talk: "A Fresh Look at the History of the Industrial Revolution" by Laurence Scales (Leatherhead)
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SIHG Talk: Chatham Dockyard - At the Heart of the Industrial Revolution by Martin Watts (Leatherhead)
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* Please note that this talk is on a WEDNESDAY evening.*
A talk describing the importance of the Dockyard to the Royal Navy and its recognition as one of the centres of the Industrial Revolution.
SIHG Talk: "The Match Girls Strike and How It Changed British History" by Michael Astrop (Zoom)
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SIHG Talk: "The History of Shepperton Studios" (Zoom) by Nick Pollard
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SIHG Talk: "In the Wake of the Narrowboat Cressy" by Alastair Clark (Leatherhead)
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In 1939 Tom and Angela Rolt set out to explore the canals of England in the narrow boat ‘Cressy’. The account of their cruise was a book called “Narrow Boat” and this inspired the national movement to preserve and cherish our inland waterways. Eighty years later Alastair Clark set out on a bike to follow the part of their voyage which followed the Trent and Mersey canal.
SIHG Talk: "Fore & Aft: The Purton Ships Graveyard" (Zoom) by Paul Barnett
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NOTE: this talk is on a Tuesday, due to speaker's unavailability most Thursdays
And now for something completely different - some maritime industrial archaeology.
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