20th century

Talk by Nigel Hills, of the Airship Association

Talk by Douglas Rose, London historian and information designer

The 1918 flu pandemic was a lethal outbreak of influenza which infected 500 million people around the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population) making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It killed the young and not the old, and was spread around the world by troops returning home after the First World War.

Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell, discover how to put out one of the fire bombs that were dropped in their tens of thousands on Epsom during the war. Try to play fag cards like wartime children, discover the size of the sweet ration, and master a paper puzzle to find the hidden pig! Write a postcard home after being evacuated.

Cost £5 per child. Contact David Brookes, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell. 

Tel: 020 8394 1734

Surrey Local History Committee

A Committee of Surrey Archaeological Society Registered Charily 272098

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

The Changing Role of Women

Saturday 21 April 2018 9.30am to 4.00 pm
at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND

9.30 Registration

9.55 Chairman’s introductory remarks

10.00 Ros Black, local author and speaker .    Duxhurst, Lady Henry Somerset’s farm colony for inebriate women

10.40 Coffee and tea

Talk by Graham Mackenzie, Chief Engineer of SS Shieldhall

Talk by R Cansdale, Basingstoke Canal Society

Talk by Michael Alliott, son of an Aviation Pioneer.