Lecture
A Lecture
SIHG Talk: Sources of Energy in SE England (Leatherhead)
Talk by Tristan Asprey. Details to follow
SIHG Talk: 200 Years of Industrial Design - and why we love Retro (Leatherhead)
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)
More details to follow
SIHG Talk: "Obsession, Enterprise and Death: the Industrial Revolution and three men's lives' by Dr Frances Hurd (Zoom)
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)
* 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
Details to follow
SIHG Talk: "In the Wake of the Narrowboat Cressy" by Alastair Clark (Leatherhead)
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.
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