Please find below information about forthcoming events in Amersham. The Society’s lectures are usually in the Kings Chapel. If any member is unable to make his/her way to these meetings and would like transport to be arranged, please contact Geraldine Marshall-Andrew on 01494 433735.
Lord Byron wasn’t just a poet, he was a rock star. The most prominent and outrageous celebrity of the Romantic era, he lived life to excess – but his relations with women were scandalous and often appalling.
This talk explores those relationships in the context of the social conventions of the time, Byron’s extraordinary rise to fame and legend, and his unparalleled notoriety for drink, sex and rebellion.
The speaker, Jeremy Holmes, was an English scholar at Oxford who has spoken to numerous literary and non-literary audiences.
Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
Local historian Neil Rees returns to the Society to continue on the subject of high-profile exiles in England during WW2. This time he will tell us the story of the Albanian ruling family.
King Zog and his family were driven out of Albania by the Italians in 1939. They first fled to France, but had to escape again when Hitler’s forces invaded it 1940. From 1941 to 1946 they spent time in England, including residing at Parmoor House near Frieth in Bucks.
The talk is based on Neil’s book “A Royal Exile: King Zog and Queen Geraldine, Including Their Wartime Exile in the Thames Valley and Chilterns”.
Doors open at 7.30pm and the talk will start at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.