Events

This year’s Buckinghamshire Local History Network (BLHN) annual one-day Conference and Local History Fair will be held on Sat 4 Oct 2025 from 10am to 4pm (doors open at 9.30am) at the University of Buckingham Vinson Building.

The subject for 2025 is “FIRE! FIRE! BUCKS ON FIRE!”. It marks the 300th anniversary of the Great Fire of Buckingham, which destroyed 138 houses and left 507 people homeless. But thirteen years later Stony Stratford also burned, then Great Horwood in 1781, Cliveden House in 1795, Marlow in 1826… the blaze at Stoke Poges was seen by Queen Victoria from the windows of Windsor Castle. These fires, their causes and destruction, how they were fought, and what was done to prevent them happening will be the centrepiece for this year’s conference.

To view the full conference programme click here.
To book your conference tickets online click here.

The Society’s Annual General Meeting will be held in the Kings Chapel on Mon 20 Oct 2025 at 8.00pm (to be preceded by a glass of wine or soft drink at 7.30pm).

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence.
2. Minutes of the 2024 Annual General Meeting and business arising.
3. Chairman’s Annual Report.
4. Honorary Treasurer’s Report and Statement of Accounts.
5. Election of Committee Members and Officers.*
6. Any other business.

The AGM will be followed by:-

• Discussion of topics raised by members.
• TALK: This will be given by a speaker from Helen & Douglas House.

* Election of Committee Members and Officers. Nominations should be sent by 13 Oct to the Hon Secretary at 162 High Street, Amersham, HP7 0EG.

If you wish to raise anything at the Amersham Society Committee Meeting, please contact the Chair, Edward Copisarow, on 07932 152522.

Much has been written about the Kennedys and from all aspects. This talk focuses mainly on the father of the clan Joe Kennedy Sr, how he got his money and rose up the ranks in the Democratic party to the effect, quite often detrimental and controlling, that he had on the Kennedy children.

The speaker Peter Hague is well known to the Society. His previous talks “Cliveden, Power, Politics and Scandal” (2019) and “Ian Fleming, Life and Local Connections” (2024) were very popular among our members.

Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.

A talk by Mervyn Edwards. Further details to follow.

A talk by David Dennis. Further details to follow.

A talk by Roger Mason. Further details to follow.

A talk by Neil Rees. Further details to follow.

A talk by Jill Eyers. Further details to follow.