The next meeting is on Monday 12th August at Old Coventrians Rugby Football Club, starting at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:pm. As usual, the talk will be broadcast via Zoom for thse members unable to attend the meeting.

The speaker for August is Dr Ann Featherstone. The talk is entitled the Murder of the Blackpool Widow.  And she hopes no-one is related to any of the people in it!!!

‘The murder of the Blackpool widow – 1953: the year when the
country celebrated the Coronation of Elizabeth II, when sweet rationing
ended and when, for 5 months over the summer, newspapers were full of
the mysterious death of a widow in the seaside town of Blackpool.
Discover how one person was convicted, another released, and what
Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks had to do with it’.