| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
| Group email: | Epochs, Episodes & Events group |
| When: | Monthly on Mondays 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 2nd Monday of the month |
| Venue: | Friends Meeting House |
| Cost: | £2 per sesson to cove refreshments and room hire |
The group is member led and the aim is to look at history from the perspective of people who lived at particular times - rather than to look at history through monarchs or the military. We aim to take a bottom up rather than a top down approach to Epochs, Events and Episodes. Subjects vary from month to month and our scope is eclectic. We have covered topics such as stagecoach travel in Georgian England, life in the St Giles Rookery in Georgian times, the Great Exhibition, a history of Cuba, the Victorian Poor Laws, Islamic scientific discovery and art, the Peasants Revolt and, lately, the Salvation Army vs the Skeleton Army.