History Group
Contact: Philip Stewart
The group meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, from 2:00 to 3:30pm. The meetings a usually held in the Upper Room at the City URC. in Windsor Place. [Map]
For future dates please check the Calendar on this page.
Recordings of Talks at our Zoom Meetings
‘The History of Piers’ a talk given to the History Group by David Hughes on 9/03/2022
‘The Cotton Trade in North West England: my family and other workers’ a talk given to the History Group by Sarah Boyce on 23/02/2022
The History of Penicillin a talk given to the History Group by Truda Bell on 9/02/2022
'Digging For Troy' a talk given to the History Group by Owen Parry 26/01/2022
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln : a talk given to the History Group by Philip Stewart on 12/01/2022
Calais : a talk given to the History Group by Les Hales on 08/12/2021
What the Romans did for us : a talk given to the History Group by David Hughes on 10/11/2021
The Spanish-American War
Talk given to the History Group by Mario Greening on 13/10/2021The Migration of Peoples or Fall of The Roman Empire
Talk given to the History Group by Owen Parry on 22/09/2021Japanese – UK relations 1854-1964 Part Two
Talk given to the History Group by Sarah Boyce on 8/09/2021
The History of Kenya
Talk given to the History Group by David Evans 21/07/2021William Marshall - The Greatest Knight
Philip Stewart 30/06/2021The Story of Sagarmatha - A 19th to the 21st century tale of adventure!
David Hughes 16/06/2021Bloody Rebellion in Wales and the Battle of St Fagans
Mario Greening 02/06/2021"The Llangibby Massacre"
Owen Parry 19/05/2021"Rebellion in the time of pandemic - the Peasants' Revolt & the Pilgrimage of Grace"
Les Hales 3/05/2021'Japanese History 1600 - 1930'
Sarah Boyce 21/04/2021'Emily Davison'
Truda Bell 07/04/2021'Decolonisation of the British Empire'
Owen Parry 3/03/2021'A History of Canals'
David Hughes 17/02/2021'Why was Splott Cardiff's first international airport? '
Mario Greening 03/02/2021'First World War and the North Sea'
Les Hales 20/01/2021'Elizabethan Spies : Fact & Fiction'
Philip Stewart 06/01/2021'The Life of Rasputin'
Truda Bell 16/12/2020'The Romans in Wales'
Sarah Boyce 02/12/2020
See our pages for the centuries we have studied: