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DELVING INTO COVENTRY’S PAST IN PICTURES                   MI

We welcome back to Greyfriars, Dean Nelson who has given several interesting presentations of Coventry’s history using old photos and film. He has many thousands of old slides of Coventry and his talks create lots of comments and recall many memories with our audience.

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FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER

BIG MOVES AND LITTLE ENCOUNTERS                                       GT

We live in times of great change and in no small way due to the climate - are there winners and losers with this? We welcome back our friend Simon Watts from ‘Wild Presentations,’ and together we'll look at a few potential new avian kids on the block and also potential losses that may occur. This together with a challenging project of filming the smaller, furry inhabitants of the local wood - and most probably some other stuff!

 

FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER

NICHOLAS HILLIARD AND THE ART OF THE MINIATURE MI

Gillian White has given Greyfriars many lively talks in the past, and tonight she will tell us all about Nicholas Hilliard the Elizabethan painter who created jewel-like miniature portraits. The talk outlines Hilliard’s career and explores the changing styles demanded by his patrons.

 

FRIDAY 9TH OCTOBER

THERE`S MORE THAN ONE "OCRACY" ERA

 

Over the last several thousand years, most societies have explored many different ways of organising how their governments would operate. Peter Huxford will unwrap many "ocracies,"considering why such a variety of governing systems have been tried, and why they collapsed or were superseded, whether by violent or peaceful means. He may surprise us with his horseshoe analogy. This will be a historical discourse; Peter will not be persuading us of the merits of any particular political belief, but as he always does, will give us plenty to think about.

 

FRIDAY 16TH OCTOBER

LETS ALL GO TO THE MUSIC HALL MH

Christine Farmer returns to give us a history of the music hall, and its songs this will include audience participation. So come along ready to join in! This promises to be a very entertaining evening.

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FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER

A DIVE INTO THE LEAMINGTON HISTORY GROUP IMAGE ARCHIVES KGT

We welcome back David Morse for another visit. David is the Vice Chair of the Leamington History Group, and describes his presentation as a ‘delve’ more than a ‘dive’ into the familiar, and the not so familiar images of a bygone era of Royal Leamington Spa and its surrounds.

 

WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER

‘WHEN DARKNESS FALLS’

AT PRIORY THEATRE, KENILWORTH AT 7 FOR 7.30PM BC

Inspired by true events, this powerful new play draws us into dark pasts, reveals disturbing truths and explores the power of stories perhaps most importantly, the ones we tell ourselves. When Darkness Falls is a spine-chilling ghost story that delivers a twisted, terrifying and thrilling tale that will leave you cowering in your seat. Tickets are £15 payable by 23rd October to Bob Clemons.

 

FRIDAY 30TH OCTOBER

Tonight's talk has been cancelled, as the hall floor is scheduled for some work to be done. there will be no Greyfriars meeting tonight.

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