We are delighted to share with you our brand new programme of Meetings and Events for the 2024/25 Season.

Monday 16 September 2024
speaker: Lt Gen (retired) Sir John Kiszely
"General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat"
Extraordinary life of local resident who was chief staff officer to Churchill, then to Mountbatten in India, and then first head of NATO.

Monday 21 October 2024
speaker: Annette Will, in conversation with Linda Hart
"Broadway Tower Country Park: its past, present and future"
Annette successfully juggles many goals, from care and maintenance of the estate to enhancing public enjoyment.

Monday 18 November 2024
speaker: Peter Gill
"Surviving the Great War: how words and music kept the boys going"
Gloucestershire’s talented actor/musician will sing songs, play music and read poems, as we commemorate World War One’s brave soldiers.

Monday 9 December 2024
speaker: Tim Bridges
"Churches of the North Cotswolds"
An illustrated talk explaining the history and importance of several local churches including Broadway’s medieval St Eadburgha’s.

Monday 20 January 2025
speaker: Robin Jackson
The Badsey Brook: Revealing 8,000 years of occupation"
Archaeological investigations, when Broadway’s flood defences were built, unearthed evidence of life and death spanning almost 8,000 years.

Monday 17 February 2025
speaker: Christopher Hotten, KC
"James Lees-Milne: ‘The Man Who Saved England’"
Snowshill Manor, Coughton Court, Hidcote and Charlecote – wonderful places we can visit because of James Lees-Milne. Come find out what he did.

Monday 17 March 2025
speaker: Tony Conder
"Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and the Atlantic Slave Trade"
How the slave trade affected the two shires, the battles to end slavery, and the aftermath.

Monday 14 April 2025
speaker: Julian Hunt
"One Thousand Years of Broadway History"
A fresh look at Broadway’s past, from Domesday to the present-day.

Monday 19 May 2025: AGM, followed by
speaker: Martin Blakeman
"Gordon Russell Furniture: Arts & Crafts, and beyond"
An insider’s account of eight decades of successful furniture-making in Broadway