Category: History Talks

by Alan Hunton Fascinating history of the famous UK forests, from towering oaks to fairy tale, bluebell woods.  We will see how Britain was transformed once the ice sheets had disappeared 16,000 years ago. As the climate warmed the Oak and many other species moved north from Southern Spain and Portugal, but each species moved…

by Angela Chantry Cost 2€ to cover the cost of room hire. Any queries contact history@u3ajavea.com

Speaker John Hopwood is going to give us a fascinating talk on the Samurai of Japan.  We have had Ying and Yang of Living in Japan in Travellers Tales, and will have a talk on Autumn Colours of Japan, so we are definitely going to know a lot about the land of the rising sun!…

Presented by Alan Oliver. Early exploration by sea was by the Polynesians, the Vikings and the Chinese, but exploration initiated by Portugal, and later by Spain, lead to the establishment of the Portuguese and Spanish Empires of the Sixteenth Century. This talk describes these events, and some of the people involved.  It is a fascinating part…

Speaker: Peter Atkinson English interest in North America began with John Cabot, a contemporary of Columbus, who sailed to Newfoundland in 1497 in search of a route to Asia.  The first attempts at settlement came a century later and were unsuccessful.  The most ambitious failure was in the 1580s under Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island in…

Ally will give a short talk on the fascination History of the first two places to be created in the Gulf of Arabia, formerly the Persian Gulf. Why did Babylon fight to gain control? What is the connection between Pearls, the Garden of Eden, Sinbad the Sailor, Zanzibar, the African slave trade plus Oil, Portsmouth…