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March 2025

Kut: The personal experiences of siege and captivity of Dr. Arthur Cane

By the start of WW1 oil had become a critical strategic commodity powering the Royal Navy’s dreadnaughts and Britain was dependant on oil from the Persian Gulf.  Britain had mobilised a large army in India and quickly moved a force of British and Indian regiments to the Persian Gulf in order to defend those vital […]
20 Mar
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
The Chapel
Carmel Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1PH
September 2025

The Empress and the English Doctor

Smallpox was feared in the 18th century.  A new innovation, inoculation, offered hope, but one problem remained: convincing people to accept the treatment.  In Russia, Catherine the Great took a momentous decision: to be inoculated herself to set an example in her empire. In 1768, she summoned the Quaker physician Thomas Dimsdale from England to […]
18 Sep
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
The Chapel
Carmel Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1PH
October 2025

Ways to the Past. The Road by Christopher Hadley

A local Roman road that has all but disappeared is brought back to life by Christopher Hadley in his book The Road, (a Times Book of the Year).  He gathers traces of archaeology, history and landscape from poems, church walls, hag stones and things buried too deep for archaeology.  In his talk ‘Ways to the […]
16 Oct
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
The Chapel
Carmel Street, Great Chesterford, CB10 1PH
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