Programme
Monthly evening talks are held, starting at 8.00 pm, on the third Wednesday of each month (except August) at St Paul's Church Hall, Tadley.
Annual subscription to the society, due in January each year, is £18.00; visitors and guests are welcome (entrance costs £3.00 per person).
TADS reserve the right to change this published programme without giving further notification.
To see a list of talks from previous years click. here
2020
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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15 January | Beer, Sausages and Marmalade; Food, Drink, Politics and Tourism in 19th Century Oxford | Liz Wooley |
19 February | The Zulu Wars - End of an Era | Richard Anderson |
18 March | The History of Smelly Alley, Reading; fish and the decline of fishmongers | Kevin Little |
15 April | 1752 and all that; derivation of the modern calendar | Mark Bowman |
20 May | Flying the Vulcan Bomber - a personal perspective | Sqn Ldr Joe Marsden |
17 June | William Gill, a Victorian explorer and spy | Tony Hadland |
15 July | If Dickens had a camera - people and places that so influenced his writings | Tony King |
19 August | Summer break - no meeting | |
16 September | The Versailles Treaty: Failure or Folly | Colin Oakes |
21 October | History of Laws in England | Graham Loxton-Best |
18 November | King, Boxes and Dots: the history of the Royal Mail and Post Office | John Rogers |
16 December | AGM and social evening |
Many thanks to all those members who have suggested possible speakers for future TADS meetings.
Page updated: Friday 10 January 2020.
Review date: 31 December 2020.