7.30pm at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 The Society’s 58th AGM will review the year’s activities and accounts. Following the business meeting there will be a chance to see a new short film about Thomas Layton’s book collection and James Wisdom will provide a briefing about the Society’s summer outing to […]
7.30pm, Monday 24 April 2017, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 A presentation and demonstration by Bob Shoemaker, Professor of British History, University of Sheffield & co-founder of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online. The Digital Panopticon project is tracing the lives of 90,000 convicts sentenced at the Old Bailey to transportation […]
7.30pm, Monday 20 February 2017, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 An illustrated talk by Dr Brian Parsons, author of The London Way of Death. Opened in 1939, this was the first jointly-run municipal crematorium where tens of thousands of local families have commemorated their relatives and friends. The local authorities […]
