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Short talks given to Society groups (more user friendly than the term 'Lecture')

SIHG Talk: "Wheels of Industry: Langley Mill" by Robert Mee (Zoom)

Events: 
Talk
Groups: 
Surrey Industrial History Group
Periods: 
Post-medieval

Langley Mill, on the Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire border, is sometimes (probably wrongly!) described as having been the "most industrialised village in the country". What didn't Langley Mill produce? This talk looks at the various companies established in the 19th and 20th centuries, and at their eventual demise.

SIHG Talk: "The History of British Radar (Eat Your Carrots!)" by Guy Bartlett (Zoom)

Events: 
Talk
Groups: 
Surrey Industrial History Group
Periods: 
20th century

As Britain faced the threat of Nazi invasion it became clear our Airforce was outnumbered 4:1; so the British Government turned to scientists for a solution. They asked for a “Death Ray”, but what they got was even more advantageous.
This is the story of how two unlikely men and a mathematical formula changed the tide of the war.
They say truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, it was here.

A Roman Studies Group Zoom talk by Professor Mike Fulford on 'The Silchester Environs Project'

Events: 
Talk
Groups: 
Roman Studies Group
Periods: 
Roman

Mike Fulford has kindly offered to talk to us on 'The Silchester Environs Project'. He led a research team in a five year project to explore the later prehistoric use of the c.140km2 landscape around Silchester Roman Town and its underlying Late Iron Age oppidum. Its base was an extensive desktop assessment containing a vast array of data, both old and new, which was incorporated in a project-wide GIS. It was further supported by various geophysics techniques, lidar, earthwork surveys, walkover reconnaissance, coring exercises and excavation.

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