Event Category: Meeting
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Tales of a Customs Officer, Part II by Brian Topping
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Convenors' Get-Together
In the Downstairs Room at the Central Methodist Hall from 2:00-4:30 pm with refreshments. Find out about convenors' responsibilities under the 2010 Equalities Act in a presentation by Mike Astrop & Liz Furlong. Discuss groups' successes, ambitions, and questions with fellow convenors and Groups Coordinator, Tristan Molloy. Read more
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April 2024: Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire
A talk by Dave Weldrake Read more
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May 2024: So you want to be a pirate?
Sadly, as a result of a bereavement, our advertised speaker, Brian Topping is unable to be with us on Thursday to talk about Tales of a Customs Officer. Instead our speaker will be Chris Helme, who joins us at short notice. Read more
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June 2024: The Victorian Era - a Legacy of Antiques
A talk by Sheila Antrobus. Read more
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Lady Killers by Michael Astrop
This is a replacement for the scheduled talk, The Silk Road, by Jane Ashby; unfortunately she is injured and unable to come. Michael Astrop has stepped in at short notice and will give a talk on Lady Killers: the true stories of murder by women, from poison to bludgeonings, with the audience acting as a… Read more
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Atlantic to Pacific - the Story of the Panama Canal by Norman Harris
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Real Cop, Literary Cop by James Ellison
Real Cop, Literary Cop - Twin career in Detective and Crime Writer, including analysis of the components of crime fiction by James Ellison Read more
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March 2024: Crippen, a case of mistaken identity
Describes how an attractive, adulterous actress turned her mild-mannered professional husband living a genteel suburban life in London into the most reviled criminal of Edwardian England; how an observant sea captain using the latest new radiowave technology of the day started a dramatic transatlantic sea chase culminating in the arrest of the fugitive Dr Crippen… Read more
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January 2024: Murderous Anaesthetists
Anaesthesia has always been a "risky" profession. This talk tells the stories of some of our practitioners who have failed to follow our motto - Primum non Nocere (First Do No Harm). Or at least those who have been caught !! Read more