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ZOOM talk: Spitfires over Oxfordshire
ZOOM talk: Spitfires over Oxfordshire
Speaker: Nic Vanderpeet The Spitfire, the famous British fighter aircraft of the Battle of Britain, later played an important role in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Nic is a learning and outreach officer for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. Talk postponed from June 2020 Meeting report
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CANCELLED: The Great Stink! Engineers, sewerage systems and the Victorian battle against dirt
CANCELLED: The Great Stink! Engineers, sewerage systems and the Victorian battle against dirt
Speaker: Tom Crook Tom is a lecturer on modern British history at Oxford Brookes University. His talk discusses the notorious ‘Great Stink’ of summer 1858 in London, its causes and the approach adopted to combat the problem of vast amounts of untreated human waste and industrial effluent entering the Thames.