Events

Buckinghamshire in the Civil War

Saturday 12th November 2016

Professor Ian Beckett will draw on his new book Wanton Troopers (Pen and Sword, 2016) to describe Buckinghamshire’s experience of Civil War and John Hampden’s importance and role in the County.  From raising recruits to attacks on villages and manor houses, learn more about what happened locally in those tumultuous years.

Recently retired as Professor of Military History at the University of Kent, Professor Beckett  is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has been Chairman of the Council of the Army Records Society since 2000, and is also Secretary to the Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust. He is on the executive council of the Buckinghamshire Record Society.

Saturday 12th November 2016 at 2:30pm at the Bucks County Musuem, Church Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2QP

Tickets are £7.50 each, or £25.00 for all four talks in the series and can be ordered from the following website: http://www.buckscountymuseum.org/museum/events/269/buckinghamshire-in-the-civil-war/

For further information.

• Contact name : Simon Marsh
• Contact email : mercia@battlefieldstrust.com
• Contact phone : 07742-958888
• Also see : Bucks County Musuem booking page