HISTON AND IMPINGTON VILLAGE SOCIETY
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January 29: AGM and Forum with Parish Councillors
February 26: Richard Fletcher. Newmarket Horseracing Museum
March 26: Roger Crabtree. History of Pye
April 30: Social evening celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Village Society (members only)
May 21: David Palmer: Gossip from the gavel
June 25: Terry Ward: In common: the importance, variety and community aspects of the ‘Common’.
Held in the Brackenbury Room at Impington Village College, 7.30pm. All welcome. Visitors £3 per meeting. The AGM is free.
For more information please contact the Secretary email: village.society@hotmail.co.uk or tel.566153
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Publications and notelets are available
from the Publications Officer 01223 232744 and from Histon Library
Barbara Parr 01223 233397
Past Events
| Tuesday October 30th 7.30pm | Proctors, Bulldogs and Constables and Councillors (follow the link for more information) |
| Friday 9th and Saturday 10th November 2018 at 7.30 pm at St Andrew’s Centre, Histon | World War One Voices of Histon & Impington (link for more information) |
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Tuesday March 27th |
Vanessa Mann: Social and family history research through early postcards, with particular reference to Histon and Impington. |
| Tuesday April 24th | Museum of Technology: past, present and future |
| Tuesday 22nd May
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Anne Datson: The History of Gilbert and Sullivan: their lives, music and poetry with excerpts of music. |
| Tuesday 26th June | Judy Wilson: Some notable Cambridge shops: Matthew’s, Heffers, Robert Sayle’s. Eaden Lilley’s … just some of the family firms supplying Cambridge residents and University in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
| Tuesday January 30th 2018 |
AGM Visitors free |
| Tuesday February 27th 2018 |
A presentation by representatives of our Parish Council |
| Monday March 12th 2.30pm at the Baptist Church 2018 |
John Savill: The History of Punch and Judy, from its Italian beginnings to the present, including a live show. |
| Tuesday September 26th 2017 |
Duncan Mackay: The history of Mackays |
| Tuesday October 31st 2017 |
Richard Fletcher: How Bill Tutte won the war: the Bletchley Park code breakers |
| Tuesday November 28th 2017 |
Prof. Mike McCarthy: The history of Cambridgeshire accents and dialects |
| Tuesday December 5th 2017 |
Members’ Christmas lunch |
