| Leader | Sheila Himsworth |
| Day of the week | Thursday |
| Times | 10.30am to noon |
| Frequency of meetings | 2nd and 4th Thursday of month |
| Venue | 22 Broadway Road, Evesham |
| Contact the leader | Telephone 47146 |
| Emal | |
The Group now has 13 members and just manages to fit the dining room of 22 Broadway Road comfortably on the second and fourth Thursday mornings at
10.30am. For most of the Autumn session we studied the First World War
covering various aspects of this popular subject. The Worcestershire Library
catalogue listed some 600 volumes we could have used. We were able to get a
long loan of two books and supplemented these from the collective past reading of
learned members ! There was much sharing of anecdotes and details.
For a change we are about to study The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes which gives an account of the scientific discoveries and researches of a number of eighteenth and nineteenth century worthies among them Charles Babbage, who
invented the first computer, Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Cook to
the Pacific, the poets Byron, Coleridge and Cowper; Erasmus Darwin, grandfather
of Charles; Edward Jenner, who discovered the smallpox vaccine; and representing the women : Fanny Burney, who survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic;
Jane Marcet, a chemist who inspired Michael Faraday; Mary Shelley of
Frankenstein fame; and many others of both sexes. It promises rich pickings!
Sheila Himsworth (47146)
Sheila Himsworth