We have decided, in common with many other organisations, that we ought to postpone our planned talk by Ann Rix and Francis Ames-Lewis, which falls on the evening of the Queen’s funeral, 19 September. The speakers have agreed that we can add it to the Spring 2023 programme. Their research provides the foundation of a […]
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 21 November 2016, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 An illustrated talk by Tracey Logan on the Chiswick Improvement Commission, our first modern form of local government. Her recent MRes in Historical Research has covered the story of a body born at a time of extraordinary local change then […]
