Author Archives: Val

A Naturalist on the Thames: C J Cornish (1858-1906) of Chiswick

7.30pm, Monday 18 September 2017, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 An illustrated talk by James Wisdom about this Victorian enthusiast for natural history, whose articles appeared in Country Life and The Spectator, and who lived on Chiswick Mall

Annual General Meeting, 15 May 2017

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 […]

Tracing Convict Lives from West London using the Digital Panopticon, 1780-1925

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 […]

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