2022/23 Programme of Events

Cancelled: Monday 19th September 2022 – rearranged for Monday 18th September 2023

All talks take place in the Lifford Memorial Hall, Lower Green, Broadway WR12 7BU, starting at 7pm. There is parking to the rear of the hall.
Membership of the Society cost £10 p.a per person, non-members £5 on the door.

Monday 17th October 2022

Agriculture in Wartime Broadway –  the 1941 National Farm Survey Returns on Broadway’s Farms and Holdings
Dr Robin Woolven, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 21st November 2022

The Royal Flying Corps: Somme Supremacy to ‘Bloody’ April
Robin Goldsmith, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 12th December 2022

Broadway’s People of Influence in the 1880s and Beyond
Karen Bloch, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 16th January 2023

Visitors to Court Farm, Broadway
Michael de Navarro, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 20th February 2023

History of Broadway
Elizabeth Eyre, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 20th March 2023

The Voices of the Past from Places within 40 miles of Broadway
Dr Mike Jenkins, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 17th April 2023

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, King Charles’s ‘Pirate Prince’
Max Keen, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Monday 15th May 2023

AGM followed by Sunnyside, Broadway and Axel Munthe
Christopher Hotten, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

Programme of Events 2023/24

Monday 18th September 2023

Update on Broadway’s Flood Alleviation Works
Robin Jackson, Lifford Memorial Hall, 7pm – 8pm

2021/22 Programme of Events

Broadway History Society
2021/22 Programme of Events

All meetings will take place in the Lifford Memorial Hall, Lower Green, Broadway, starting at 7pm.

Membership costs £10 per person, non-members £3 on the door.

Monday 13th September 2021 

Broadway’s National School – a talk by Elizabeth Eyre

Monday 18th October 2021

Seeds of Victory, The First World War – a talk by Robin Goldsmith

Monday 15th November 2021

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Portrait of Sisters’ – a talk by Dr Malcolm Rogers CBE

Monday 13th December 2021

Gordon Russell Ltd & the People Involved – a talk by Martin Blakeman

Monday 17th January 2022

History of Luggers Hall –  a talk by Roger Dudley

Monday 21st February 2022

500 Years of Broadway Maps – a talk by David Ella

Monday 21st March 2022

A Working Man’s Castle, the History of the Fleece Inn, Bretforton – a talk by Nigel Smith

Monday 25th April 2022

History of the Coventry Family and Broadway Tower, the Completion of the 6th Earl’s Dream of Perfection – a talk by Jill Tovey and Tim Hickson

Monday 16th May 2022

Annual General Meeting and Farnham House, Watching the World Go By – a talk by John Noott