Talks Programme 2023
Every second Thursday of the month (except July and August), 2.15 for 2.30.
Jan - Richard Sims - Bridport Rope, Net and Twine Industry
Feb - Dr Robert Nantes - ‘Distressed’ in Dorset:
A Tale of Debt, Bankruptcy and Flight in the 1820s
Mar - AGM - No talk
Apr - Rob Curtis - Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Dorset
May - Brian Bates - Dorchester, German Prisoner of War Camp in
World War One
June - Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard - Dorset
Migration in the 1800s
July/Aug - No meeting
Sep - Dr Tim Connor - 'The Making of Bridport'
Oct - Bernard Paull - Dorset Bridges - Spanning the Ages:
A
Journey along the Rivers, Highways and Byways of Dorset
Nov - Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, Cheryl Ludgate, Nick Pitt, Robin Stapleton & West Bay Discovery Centre -
‘80
Years Ago: US 16th Infantry Regiment Arrives in West Dorset’
Dec - Dr Roger Ball, University of the West of England -
‘I fear there will be blood spilt here this evening’:
The 1831 Reform Riots in Dorset
Talks from the 2022 programme
Prof. Karen
Hunt - ‘Looking for Agnes':
Bridport’s First Woman Town Councillor
Sheila Meaney - ‘I do like to be beside the seaside’: How holidays have changed over the years
Andy Violet - A Century of Ceramics: The story of the Torquay Pottery
Dr Lucy Goodison - The Myth of the Green Man and other Fertility Fantasies
Rob Curtis - The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Dr Tim Connor - Mapperton: The Story of a Dorset Parish
Nick
Pitt/Robin Stapleton - Americans
in Bridport: November 1943 to May 1944