Meetings will now be held at Swanmore Village Hall, New Road, Swanmore at 2pm on Tuesdays on the first and third Tuesday from September to the first week of May. There is a recess during the summer months. Members £1 per meeting, guests £2 per meeting.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided after the meetings

Books and puzzle are available for a donation to go to the chosen charity.

Dates and speakers may be subject to change without prior notice. Each talk lasts about an hour.

Dates for your Diary

2026

15/9/26 Prof. Duncan Colin-Jones: How Climate Change affects our health in the UK

20/10/26 Brian Sutton: Charles Dickens - It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

2/11/26 Alan Abbott: Route 66

17/11/26 Martin Letts: Working and Wandering in Australia.

1/12/26 Trevor Rutter: Billy the Kid and other Bad Eggs.

15/12/26 Edwina Carpenter: The Amazing Life of a Holiday Tour Manager/Guide.

2027

5/1/27 Brian Sutton: The Duke of Monmouth: How his Head was Turned and Lost

19/1/27 Angela McPherson: A Grandmother's Legacy: the Gift that Keeps Giving

2/2/27 Lyndon Palmer: Palaeolithic Cave Painting (Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals)

16/2/27 John Carpenter: Poppies, Tree Bark and Poison Arrows: What Have Drugs Done for Us?

2/3/27 David Gane: When Chimps are Smarter than People

16/3/27 Marc Heighway: Hidden in Plain Sight: Reminders of WW2 in the New Forest

6 Apr Alan Lloyd: Hampshire Heroes: Volunteer Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

4/5/27 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING followed by: Jeremy Prescott: The Story of the Victoria Cross