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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260413T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260413T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
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SUMMARY:April 2026 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: Tithe Maps and Documents \nSpeaker: Anne Langley \nAnne is both a member of Coventry Family History Society and also Stretton on Dunsmore Family History Society. We have had the pleasure of her talks and her knowledge a few times in the past\, and this talk should be just as interesting as the previous. There is a lot of information that can be obtained from Tithe Maps\, and Anne will tell us how.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/april-2026-meeting/
LOCATION:The ‘Old Coventrians’ Sports Ground\, Old Coventrians Rugby Club\, Coventry\, CV4 9DE
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260309T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260309T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20251213T195624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T132306Z
UID:7871-1773084600-1773091800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:March 2026 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Silk Route \nSpeaker: Roger Butler \nThis colourfull talk tells the story of a journey following the ancient Silk Route through Central Asia with an extraordinary range of landscapes and cultures. Travelling by bus\, truck and train the journey passes through the Himalayan chain and crosses Tibet to the fabled city of Lhasa. Wild mountain scenery then leads north to the edge of the vast Taklamakan desert (this translates as ‘go in and you won’t come out’!) where old oasis towns lead the way into Xinjiang – the westernmost part of China. From remote Kasgar\, rough roads head south over the world’s highest international border\, and through the jagged Karakorum mountains\, into Pakistan.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/march-2026-meeting/
LOCATION:The ‘Old Coventrians’ Sports Ground\, Old Coventrians Rugby Club\, Coventry\, CV4 9DE
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20251213T194619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T163727Z
UID:7868-1770665400-1770672600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:February 2026 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: Adding Social History \nSpeaker: Dr Penny Walters \nSocial history views history from what could be termed the ‘bottom up\,’ not ‘top down.’ Looking through the lens of the past will enhance your understanding of how people lived\, worked and played in their daily lives. Penny’s talk will help you insert your ancestor or relative in a specific time period and place\, with local\, national\, and world events.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/february-2026-meeting/
LOCATION:The ‘Old Coventrians’ Sports Ground\, Old Coventrians Rugby Club\, Coventry\, CV4 9DE
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20251213T174645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260111T200833Z
UID:7863-1768851000-1768858200@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:January 2026 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The real Wolf Hall story \nSpeaker: Ian Porter \nPLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE! \nOur speaker Ian Porter starts his talk on the Real Wolf Hall with an overview of Henry’s life.  We go on to consider why he behaved so badly in his later years\, putting forward a medical explanation. Ian gives a brief outline of Thomas Cromwell’s and Anne Boleyn’s early lives before going on to talk about the plot against Anne\, and how Cromwell came to eventually suffer the same fate as her.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/january-2026-meeting/
LOCATION:The ‘Old Coventrians’ Sports Ground\, Old Coventrians Rugby Club\, Coventry\, CV4 9DE
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251201T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251201T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T115613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T182217Z
UID:6941-1764617400-1764617400@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:December 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Christmas Social \nPlease note that this meeting will be held on Monday 1st December. \nTalk: \nThe Life and Legacy of John Gulson: City Father by Susan Lomas. \nSue is telling us of John Gulson’s impact on Victorian Coventry. It is a brief look at the many aspects of Victorian Life that John Gulson took an active interest in\, and the influence he had in his lifetime and beyond.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/december-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251110T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T114816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T114533Z
UID:6938-1762803000-1762803000@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:November 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: A WW1 Nurse  by Chris Hewis \nChris is telling the story of Jean Bemrose MM SRN\, a nurse on the front line during the First World War. Jean was awarded the Military Medal for her gallantry and devotion to duty during a major air raid on Etaples Hospital. This is a unique insight into WWI nursing care. It is a story of an Angel working in Hell
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/november-2025-eeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T114558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T165236Z
UID:6936-1760383800-1760383800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:October 2025 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:AGM and: \nTalk: The Power of 3: The Story of Thomas Fowler. 1777-1843 by Pamela Vass \n‘Wooden Computer Invented in North Devon.’ A startling headline for a local paper. It continued\, ‘It is fascinating … to know that one of the original pioneers of the computer was a self taught bookseller and printer … who was born over 200 years ago. His name was Thomas Fowler.’ Thomas Fowler was a mathematician and engineer who invented a unique calculating machine that anticipated the computer age by more than a century. So why are so few people aware of this humble\, self-taught genius from a small market town in Devon? Tragically bad fortune and prejudice dogged his footsteps and his ground-breaking work lapsed into obscurity. Until now. \nThis multi media presentation includes my account of Fowler’s life and work\, video\, illustrations and readings from original documents of the time
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/october-2025-annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250908T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250908T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T091241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T164423Z
UID:6934-1757359800-1757359800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:September 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk:Coventry’s Experience of the Civil Wars in the 17th Century.   by Stewart Ferguson \nStewart Fergusson read history at Cambridge and then spent six years teaching and researching early modern history at McMaster University in Ontario\, Cambridge and Oxford University. In 1977 he moved to Coventry to set up and manage local housing associations but continued to research aspects of Coventry’s history. He retired from full time employment in 2014. He has published three articles on aspects of Coventry’s 17th century history\, writes a blog for the Guildhall and is a research volunteer for Historic Coventry Trust
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/september-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250811T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250811T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T085804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T164813Z
UID:6931-1754940600-1754940600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:August 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: Heroes & Ghosts – how shame and scandal affect genealogical research \nMichael H Hallett is the grandson of Wing Commander Harold Blackburn MC AFC\, a pioneering aviator before World War I and war hero. He is a generational trauma specialist who is fascinated by how trauma obscures the genealogical record while that same record can be used to recognise and release family trauma.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/august-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250714T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T085549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T174442Z
UID:6929-1752521400-1752521400@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:July 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe speaker is Paul Martin Remfrey.  The title of his talk is – What are Castles? \nPaul has been researching medieval history\, genealogy and architecture for over 30 years. \nHe shares his passion for Castles and who lives in them in this talk.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/july-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250609T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250609T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T085343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T130858Z
UID:6927-1749497400-1749497400@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:June 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Kilsby Tunnel Murder Mystery  by Paul Waddoups \nKilsby Tunnel\, in Northamptonshire\, part of the London to Birmingham Railway took 1\,250 navvies to build and many lost their lives when the tunnel collapsed during the build in 1830-32.  However these were not the only loss……
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/june-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250512T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250512T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T085142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T182234Z
UID:6925-1747078200-1747078200@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:May 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The English Country House: Bedrooms\, Banquets and Balls  by John Vigar John Vigar MA\,FSA Scot FRSA. \nJohn has been a professional historian and speaker for over 40 years\, visiting diverse groups across the UK and beyond. For much of that time he also taught at the University of Kent as well as for the WEA and Denman College. \nHis specialist subject is ecclesiology – the study of church architecture and associated topics\, but he loves all types of historic buildings as you will see from the title of this talk. He is keen to bring history to life and make it amusing and accessible You`ll never see history as a dull and dry subject again!
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/may-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250414T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250414T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T084907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T154450Z
UID:6923-1744659000-1744659000@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:April 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Prince’s Murderous Mistress by Steve Herra \nSteve is third generation of Cunard seafarer\, his last ship was QE2 where he was a \nPurser. On leaving Cunard Steve joined the Royal Naval Reserve. Prior to the pandemic\, \nSteve used to conduct guided visits to both Cunard and P&O ships whilst they were in \nSouthampton. Sadly these ceased during the lockdown.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/april-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250310T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T084617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T212825Z
UID:6921-1741635000-1741635000@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:March 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The ABC of ARP by Paul & Alex Thompson \nThe ABC of ARP’ looks at the preparation of and Civil Defence provision on the Home Front in case of air-raid or invasion.  It includes an air raid and incendiary bomb training drill including a working air-raid siren\, gas rattle\, bell and whistles so ear plugs may be needed!
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/march-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T084137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T084348Z
UID:6919-1739215800-1739215800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:February 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Queen’s Coins by Keith Westcott
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/february-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241206T083952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T083952Z
UID:6917-1736796600-1736796600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:January 2025 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Talk: D-Day Landings by James Porter
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/january-2025-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241205T100415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T083445Z
UID:6913-1733772600-1733779800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:December 2024 Social Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Its Ian and Debs Extraordinary Quiz to celebrate our 30th Anniversary Followed by a social meal. \nMembers are requested to bring small quantities of food to be shared amongst all present. The Society will provide cheese & biscuits plus tea and coffee. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/december-2024-social-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241111T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20241106T120311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T120311Z
UID:6861-1731353400-1731360600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:November Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting takes place on Monday 11th November\, starting at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. As usual\, the venue is the Old Coventrians Rugby Football Club. The meeting will also be available via Zoom for those unable to attend in person. \nThe talk by Anthony Poulton-Smith is entitled “The Origins of Pub Names”. \nA freelance journalist and author\, with 89 books and many articles\, is a ghostwriter\, has innumerable crosswords and puzzles published\, whilst also compiling and marketing quizzes. These books have mostly been on the subject of the origins of place-names. Anthony has also been interviewed several times on the radio.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/november-meeting-2/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240909T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240909T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240825T145042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240825T145042Z
UID:6746-1725910200-1725917400@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:September Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The September meeting is on Monday 9th September at the Old Coventrians Rugby Football Club\, starting at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. As usual\, the meeting will be available via Zoom for those members unable to attend. \nThe speaker is Mark Gamble. \nHis talk is entitled ‘Monty’s Double: The life of actor M.E. Clifton James’. \nThe talk is an exploration of an actor’s family history from childhood\, work as an actor\, service in the Great War\, and his impersonation of General Bernard Law Montgomery – Monty!
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/september-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240723T194026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240723T194026Z
UID:6555-1723491000-1723498200@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:August 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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!!! \n‘The murder of the Blackpool widow – 1953: the year when the\ncountry celebrated the Coronation of Elizabeth II\, when sweet rationing\nended and when\, for 5 months over the summer\, newspapers were full of\nthe mysterious death of a widow in the seaside town of Blackpool.\nDiscover how one person was convicted\, another released\, and what\nLouis Tussaud’s Waxworks had to do with it’.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/august-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240622T082915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T083052Z
UID:6522-1720467000-1720467000@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:July 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The talk on Monday 8th July 2024 is by Ben Nicholls. \nThe meeting will start at 7:30 pm; doors open at 7:00 pm. The venue is Old Coventrians Rugby Football Club. As usual\, the talk will be available via Zoom \nBen returns with a talk entitled ‘Finding my Grandfathers Global Family’.  At the age of 24 Ben discovered that his grandad had had four children with three different women over a period of 40 years.  He had always heard about an ‘Uncle Bob’\, but where were the others?  Without knowing their names this seemingly impossible quest to trace them and their descendants took Ben to the other side of the world; a world in which fact is stranger than fiction!
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/july-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240610T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T173625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240527T165434Z
UID:6275-1718047800-1718047800@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:June 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Magna Carta by Dr Erik Grigg \nErik is a history lecturer at Lincolnshire University. This entertaining presentation will make the Magna Carta medieval life of King John relevant with many anecdotes of unrest.  Erik highlights some of the clauses of the written laws\, actions affecting a persons liberty and the church! \n 
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/june-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T173154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T161428Z
UID:6273-1715628600-1715628600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:May 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The speaker is Martin Harrison. The title of his talk is “Bablake’s Last Casualty”. \nMartin is a collector and researcher of Orders\, Decorations and Medals.  He will be looking at a group of medals awarded to a local Coventry Soldier who was killed in action in World War I\, Reginald Thomas Beaufoy.  Martin will detail his research and how he pieced Reginald’s short life together as well as subsequent developments which make a poignant story. \n 
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/may-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240408T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T172908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T125538Z
UID:6271-1712604600-1712604600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:April 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The speaker is Jean Renwick. The title is “Researching the Mourning Brooch\, a saga about Real People.” \nNovelist Jean Renwick’s extensively illustrated talk will reveal years of painstaking research behind the first two books of her family saga\, The Mourning Brooch\, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. After inheriting a mourning brooch\, Jean was intrigued to know who was Elizabeth Addy\, commemorated in the brooch\, and what happened to the two little girls she left behind. Acclaimed by Yorkshire historians for their authenticity\, the novels reveal how the girls’ lives took them and their children in very different directions. \nWith the help of newspaper archives\, Jean discovered scandals which have added drama to the story. You will hear how Jean’s research in Yorkshire and the USA revealed much about the personalities of the characters\, reflected in how she shaped the novels. \nMembers  may  have a piece of mourning jewellery to show on screen and share their own story. \nIf you want to read the book ahead of the talk\, it is available as a paperback or for Kindle on Amazon. More details can be found on www.jeanrenwickauthor.co.uk .
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/april-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T172524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T160446Z
UID:6269-1710185400-1710192600@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:March 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:CFHS invites Louise Camby to speak to us.  Louise is a professional speaker and voice over artist. She has 13 talks that she shares with groups like us.  She will share her talk entitled ‘Capturing the Curvature of the Earth on Concorde” with us on 11th March 2024 at 7:30 pm. The speaker will be delivering her talk via Zoom. The COVFHS meeting will take place at OCRFC as usual.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/march-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T172412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T084424Z
UID:6267-1707766200-1707766200@www.covfhs.org
SUMMARY:February 2024 meeting
DESCRIPTION:“Life in a Medieval Village” \nwith Gareth King \nAt this month’s meeting we will be entertained with another one of Gareth’s really interesting talks.  This one sets out to tell you some of the details of what it was like to live in medieval times\, and what people back then had to cope with. \n 
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/february-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240108T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240108T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T123104
CREATED:20240103T164709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T164709Z
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SUMMARY:January 2024 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The speaker at the January meeting is Jenny Mallin who is speaking on The Early Days of her British Raj Ancestors. \nShe is a Berkshire based speaker and award winning author for her ‘Best in the World’ Cookbook Memoir ‘A Grandmother’s Legacy’. \nJenny’s talk for the evening delivers a fascinating insight into five generations of her family who lived in India during the days of the British Raj.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/january-2024-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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SUMMARY:December 2023 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Social Evening with Quiz – by Deb Philpott. \nThe Society will provide tea \, coffee\, cheese\, paté and biscuits. \nMembers are invited to contribute other items of food and drink to share.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/december-2023-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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SUMMARY:November 2023 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe speaker is Antony Poulton-Smith talking on the Origins of Place names.  \n\n\n\nThe talk is designed to enable specific enquiries for English place names from the audience. These should be requested before the meeting via: anthony_poulton_smith@hotmail.com \n\n\n\nThe meeting will also be broadcast via Zoom for members who are unable to attend in person.
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/november-2023-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T190000
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SUMMARY:October 2023 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:AGM followed by “Secret Wartime Britain” – by Colin Philpott
URL:https://www.covfhs.org/event/october-2023-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meetings
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