Category: Group – History
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS!
Tuesday 10 October 11am – Javea Players Studio Travel back in time to the years of the Second World War – as you’ve almost certainly never known them before. Dave McCall will be our speaker on October 10th at 11am. Javea Players studio doors will be open at 10.30am. He will tell us the “stranger…
Edward VIII affairs & secrets revealed!
We had a great talk at our last History group meeting. Gary Johnson told a big audience all about the affairs of Edward VIII long before Wallace Simpson came on the scene. One “lady friend” was able to use blackmail to evade a guilty murder verdict! Thanks to Gary for doing so much research. Ally…
History Talk – Tuesday 31 January
20th century Canadian Artists by Peter Atkinson This talk by Peter was well received in Moraira lately, most people knowing nothing about the subject and being pleasantly surprised. It will be a mixture of history and art. He will first tell us about the painters from British backgrounds who came together to promote their style…
Tree-mendous talk at History Group meeting!
Congratulations to Alan Hunton for his fascinating talk to the U3A History Group. Alan’s presentation, entitled ‘The Return of Trees after the Ice Age – The Oaks That Walked from Malaga to Merseyside’, provided a knowledgeable and entertaining insight into how Britain was transformed once the ice sheets had disappeared 16,000 years ago. Those who…
History Talks – Thanks to Peter Atkinson
A big thank you to Peter Atkinson for such a brilliant talk on 18 March. We were all in awe at how much research he had done to put together his most interesting talk about the first colonies of the USA….. some BEFORE the Mayflower! We all learned such a lot, including how the…
History Talk – 18 March 2022
English Colonisation of North America: Mayflower and a Whole Lot More – by Peter Atkinson By 1750, Britain had 13 colonies (soon to become the USA) on the eastern seaboard between Georgia and Maine, and two in present-day Canada: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. We shall explore their origins and development, starting with the first small…