A House through Time - 5 Winkley Square - a family home
9th Dec
Christmas Lunch
13th Jan 2025
Roger Browne
The Great American Songbook
27th Jan
Graham Nuttall
Life Behind Bars. NOTE: This talk is at 10.15 with coffee from 9.45
10th Feb
Lunch
24th Feb
Julian Bond
Escape from Burma (and short AGM)
10th March
Frank Vigon
Shaun Greenhalgh - Forger from a shed in Bolton
24th March
Lunch
28th April
Steve Barrett
Exploring the Solar System
12th May
Colin Penny
Historic Graffiti: The writing's on the Wall
9th June
Stephen Doyle
The Rise and Spread of Homo Sapiens
23rd June
Ann-Marie Michel
Art and the Working Class
14th July
Lunch
28th July
Josephine Gosling
Walks, People and History
11th Aug
Keith Stevens
Ordnance Survey
8th Sept
Ray Hoerty
Famous Sayings.
22nd Sept
Simon Michael
My Life in Crime (by a retired Barrister)
13th Oct
Lunch
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27th Oct
Joe Darlington
Spinoza's Spectacles - Philosophy, Science and the Dutch Masters
10th Nov
David Arkell
The History of Brooklands - Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation, Home of Concorde -
24th Nov
Steve Barrett
Telescopes and The Star of Bethlehem
8th Dec
Christmas Lunch
Old Links
23rd June 2025 Ann-Marie Michel ‘Art and the Working Class" After years of speaking to audiences about art and art history, it's clear that many people seem to feel that art is something specialist – and possibly not for them. So often art is seen as a luxury, and luxuries are of course for the rich. But if you think about it, who really needs beauty the most? Isn’t it the people who have to struggle and do without and scrimp and save – in other words, most of us? Wouldn’t it be great if people felt that beauty and art were really made for the working class? There’s plenty of evidence that it isn’t – most collectors are rich, and most of the great art treasures of England are found in the rich country houses of England, owned by the great families of England. But you might be surprised to find out that there is also a long tradition of British artists and British art critics arguing that it shouldn’t be that way…especially in the north of England. This talk is about another side to art history – art for the working class.