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6 Oct 2005
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Early Photography
Roger Watson, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock
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3 Nov 2005
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Herculaneum
Prof.Robert Fowler
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1 Dec 2005
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Heraldry in Bath Abbey
Roland Symons
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5 Jan 2006
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Whales and Dolphins: Angels or Devils?
A Consideration of Intelligence and Perceptions.
Mark Simmonds
Mark Simmonds is International Director of Science at the
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
He has been a University Lecturer and is a member of
the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission and served
for several years on the UK Delegation to the IWC.
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2 Feb 2006
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Life in Stuart Bath
Dr.John Wroughton
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2 Mar 2006
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Tales from Bath Archives
Colin Johnson
City Archivist.
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6 Apr 2006
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Right People, Right Time, Right Place:
The Founding of the American Museum.
Judy Grant
American Museum
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4 May 2006
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Pumping Up The Pressure:
why high blood pressure is bad for you.
Professor Julian Paton
Professor of Physiology at Bristol University.
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6 July 2006
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The Bristol River Avon:
rocks, landscape and possible origin.
Elizabeth Devon
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7 Sept 2006
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Non-verbal Communication and Body Language
Dr.Harry Witchell
Dept.of Physiology, Medical School, Bristol University
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5 Oct 2006
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Tales from the Green Valley
Peter Sommer
Travel Writer and TV Producer
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2 Nov 2006
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The Construction and Operation of Water Mills
Martin Watts
Mill Wright and Industrial Historian
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7 Dec 2006
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Laos and Vietnam
Dr,Anne Cook
Travel Writer and Doctor
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4 Jan 2007
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The Terracotta Army
Eddie Field
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1 Feb 2007
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Medieval Bath
Peter Davenport
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1 Mar 2007
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The Killer Wave of 1607
Prof.Simon Haslett
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5 Apr 2007
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The Quarry
David Boag
An exploration of the geology and the finds in
a quarry in the course of extraction.
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3 May 2007
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Iceland - Last Wilderness in Europe
Lothar Respondek
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5 July 2007
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Intelligent Robots:
present reality and future possibilities
Prof.Alan Winfield
Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences,
University of the West of England, Bristol
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6 Sept 2007
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Written on the Wall: The Uncertain Future of the English Language
Dr.Nick Ostler
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4 Oct 2007
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Why Revolutions Always Fail
Prof.William Gosling
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1 Nov 2007
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The Navvies who made Box Tunnel
Dinah Starkey
Author and Historian
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6 Dec 2007
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God and Mammon: Art Patronage in the Sassetti Chapel
Bob Baggs
Author
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3 Jan 2008
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A Blast from the Past: Medieval Woodwind Instruments
Jonathan Weeks
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7 Feb 2008
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The Holburne Development Proposals
Xa Sturgis
Director
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13 Mar 2008
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Blown and Stained Glass
Themis Mikellides
Bath Aqua Glass. Displays of their work will be available.
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3 Apr 2008
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Lunatick Astronomy - A Dramatic Lecture
Andrew Lound
Further Information
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1 May 2008
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Roman Food and Drink
Ian Meadows
Archaeologist
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3 July 2008
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Operation Henry - a hinny's experiences
to Santiago de Compostela
David Snelling
This is a mixture of travelogue and description of his own
attempts to celebrate the millenium.
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4 Sept
2008
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Pain: When a Symptom becomes a Disease
Prof.David Blake
Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
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2 Oct
2008
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Sustainable Housing
Bill Gething
Feilden Clegg Bradley
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6 Nov
2008
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A Second Blast from the Past:
Medieval Instruments (Horns and Strings)
Jonathan Weeks
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4 Dec
2008
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Food on Nelson's Victory
Jean Seymour
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8 Jan
2009
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Dry Stone Walls: Morphology, Geology, Chronology, Ecology
Chris Stephens
Chairman, National Dry Stone Walling Association
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12 Mar
2009
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Witnessing Reality in Palestine
Judith Hammond
She has recently been out there as a human rights observer for 3 months.
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2 Apr
2009
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An Entertainment
U3A in Bath Creative Writing Group
This marks the launch of their tenth volume of collected works.
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7 May
2009
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The Real Henry VIII - a look behind the propaganda, myths and media distortions
Derek Wilson
Tudor Historian
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4 June
2009
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Annual General Meeting
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2 July
2009
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Nice Barrage: Shame about the Fish
Dr. David Bird
University of the West of England
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3 Sept
2009
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The State of Liberty in the Present Day
Don Foster, MP
JS Mill's "On Liberty"was published 150 years ago.
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1 Oct
2009
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The Structure of the Earth: what is below our feet and how we know
Prof Michael Walter
Dept of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
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5 Nov
2009
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Climate Change, Peak Oil and Bath
Peter Andrews
Director Eco-logic Books, co-ordinator Transition Bath, chair Bath Organic Group
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3 Dec
2009
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The Lottery of the Genes
Professor John Beardmore
Emeritus Professor of Genetics, Swansea
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