Please find below information about forthcoming events in Amersham. The Society’s lectures are usually in the Kings Chapel. If any member is unable to make his/her way to these meetings and would like transport to be arranged, please contact Geraldine Marshall-Andrew on 01494 433735.
(PLEASE NOTE THE SPEAKER/SUBJECT CHANGE)
With a premises on every high street, pharmacy and its history is arguably most visibly traced through its shops. From local landmarks Haddon’s and King’s, via Shakespeare’s apothecary to Boots, this highly-illustrated talk by Briony Hudson will explore both the profession and the products.
Before joining Amersham Museum as its Director in 2022, Briony worked in medical museums for twenty years, starting as Keeper of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum Collection. Still today in her day “off” from Amersham, she is writing, lecturing, advising or serving in a committee role wearing a pharmacy history hat.
Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
Join a guided Tudor Walk to learn about life – and death – in 16th century Amersham. The subjects include food and drink, markets and fairs, buildings and burgage plots, clothing and work, health and cures, religious beliefs and the Lollard martyrs.
The walk is led by guides in Tudor costume. It starts from the Museum, visits the church (weddings permitting!), then leaves the town and follows field paths. It lasts about 2¼ hours (short-cut possible) and includes a climb up through the fields (taken slowly).
To book tickets please click here.
Another fascinating story from local historian Neil Rees on the subject of high-profile exiles in Buckinghamshire, this time about French Royalty.
Louis XVIII, King of France 1814-1824, spent 23 years before his reign in exile from France beginning in 1791, after the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic era. From 1809 to 1814 Louis, then Count of Provence, and his court resided at Hartwell House near Aylesbury. Following the defeat of Napoleon, the French Senate invited Louis to resume the throne of France. He signed the accession papers and left Hartwell for Paris.
Doors open at 7.30pm and the talk will start at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
Join a guided Tudor Walk to learn about life – and death – in 16th century Amersham. The subjects include food and drink, markets and fairs, buildings and burgage plots, clothing and work, health and cures, religious beliefs and the Lollard martyrs.
The walk is led by guides in Tudor costume. It starts from the Museum, visits the church (weddings permitting!), then leaves the town and follows field paths. It lasts about 2¼ hours (short-cut possible) and includes a climb up through the fields (taken slowly).
To book tickets please click here.
“Knole was built to impress” and has done so ever since. So said Thomas Sackville in 1605 (it wasn’t until much later that they changed their name to Sackville-West).
Knole House dates from the middle of the 15th century and is now one of Britain’s most important and complete historic homes with a colourful past as an archbishop’s palace, the former hunting ground of Henry VIII, the home of the Sackville family for 400 years and a source of literary inspiration for Virginia Woolf.
The house has sumptuous showrooms containing fine Royal Stuart furniture, tapestries and above all, the well known Rembrandt collection and a very impressive silver collection. Stairs lead from the Great Hall to the first floor apartments with long galleries hung with fine paintings and lined with elegant Royal furniture.
We will be able to view the orangery and gardens (highly recommended), which will be open to the public the day we will be there, by kind permission from Lord Sackville-West.
We do hope you can join us on what should prove to be a wonderful, inspiring and interesting visit.
Further details, including Itinerary and Booking Form, will be published in our January Newsletter and circulated to members by email.
Join a guided Tudor Walk to learn about life – and death – in 16th century Amersham. The subjects include food and drink, markets and fairs, buildings and burgage plots, clothing and work, health and cures, religious beliefs and the Lollard martyrs.
The walk is led by guides in Tudor costume. It starts from the Museum, visits the church (weddings permitting!), then leaves the town and follows field paths. It lasts about 2¼ hours (short-cut possible) and includes a climb up through the fields (taken slowly).
To book tickets please click here.