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 […]
7.30pm, Monday 16 January 2017, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 An illustrated talk by Susan Darling, independent researcher. She was the London Parks & Gardens Trust co-ordinator for the Capability Brown 300th anniversary in 2016 and is continuing to research Brown’s involvement in the landscaping of Syon Park.
