Our 2024 AGM will take place as a face-to-face meeting in the Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 15th May at 7:30pm. Documents that will also be handed out at the AGM are available by clicking on the following pages: Notice & Agenda Minutes of the 2023 AGM Chairman's Report Treasurer's Report Trustee's Report - not […]
28 members and 2 non-members signed the attendance book. 1. Apologies for absence Apologies were received from: Judy Brook, Dominic Davey, Catherine Fiddick, Lord Haslehurst, Diana Hoy, Clare Mulley, David Pearl, Tessa Pilsbury, Judith Rodden, Paul and Heather Salvidge, Bernice Smith, Margery Taylor and Bruce Tice. 2. Minutes of the previous meeting Minutes of the […]
To be held in Saffron Walden Library, Wednesday, 15th May 2024 at 7:30pm Notice & Agenda Apologies for absence Minutes of previous meeting & matters arising Chairman's Report Treasurer's Report Librarian's Report Election of officers and committee of the Society AOB Nominations for the posts of officers and members of the committee should be sent in […]
AGENT ZO tells the remarkable story of courageous resistance fighter Elzbieta Zawacka, aka 'Zo', the only female member of the Polish elite special forces, the 'Silent Unseen', and the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-German occupied Poland during the Second World War. There, while being hunted by the Gestapo, who arrested her entire […]
The Gibson Library Society held a second evening of poetry readings: "from Matthew Arnold to Benjamin Zephaniah", hosted by local poet Hannah Walker. People were invited to bring their favourite poems to read, or poems they have written themselves, or just come and listen. Modern poetry or old favourites, high-brow or humorous - all are […]
In his new book, Brightening from the East, writer and social historian Ken Worpole explored a unique 'region of the mind' - the Thames Estuary, the marshland landscapes of the East Anglian shoreline, and the Quaker and Anglican strongholds of the Essex interior - where Essex has been fertile soil for a rich variety of […]
Edward Charlesworth lived from 1813 to 1893 and participated in significant developments in the study of the natural sciences; being acquainted with and/or communicating with some of the leading natural scientists of the time. Charlesworth was a gifted and prolific geologist who published influential scientific papers and was made a fellow of the Geological Society […]
The AGM was followed by a talk on by Oscar Aldred on Sir Cyril Fox and the Archaeology of the Cambridge region. Sir Cyril Fox PhD FSA FBA MRIA (1882-1967) was an archaeologist and director of the National Museum of Wales, who went up to Magdalene College, University of Cambridge to read - as of […]
Our 2025 AGM took place as a face-to-face meeting in the Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 14th May at 7:30pm. Documents that will also be handed out at the AGM will be available by clicking on the following pages: Notice & Agenda Minutes of the 2024 AGM Chairman's Report Treasurer's Report Trustee's Report
Just off Fleet Street, in what was the heart of the British national press is the St Bride Foundation. It was set up in 1891 as an institution to support […]
