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Salisbury Branch: Lecture and Lunch – Almshouses, hidden in plain sight – Paul Budd

Mercure White Hart Hotel 1 St John’s Street, Salisbury, United Kingdom

With at least 14 separate almshouse groups in Salisbury and around the area we will learn their purpose, their history and in particular discover more about The Hospital of St John’s, Heytesbury, which has been in existence since 1472. Start time:             11.00 am  (Coffee from 10.30 am) End time:              12.30 pm  (Lunch from 12.30 pm […]

Salisbury Branch: Lecture and Lunch – Afghanistan: Return of the Taliban – Dr Heidi Meyer

Mercure White Hart Hotel 1 St John’s Street, Salisbury, United Kingdom

December 2014 NATO formally ended its mission.  By August 2021 the Taliban were back in power.  With 15 years’ experience of Afghanistan both in the country and overseas, Dr Heidi Meyer gives her personal perspective of the critical key decisions that were taken which led to the Taliban’s swift return to power. Start time: 11.00 […]

Salisbury Branch: Lecture and Lunch – The Extraordinary Life of Eels – Andrew Kerr

Mercure White Hart Hotel 1 St John’s Street, Salisbury, United Kingdom

One of the oldest species on earth, eel’s eggs drift on the Gulf Stream from the Sargasso Sea arriving two years later in European rivers as elvers.  Thirty years later they migrate the 4,000 miles back to their breeding grounds and the cycle begins again.  We hear of the international fight to protect them. Start […]

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