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This meetup advertises events in Surrey about history. It promotes meetings of its own and of local history groups, some online, some physical and some hybrid (both online and physical). During the Corona virus crisis we organised the Lockdown Lectures, a series of online talks delivered via Zoom.
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Zoom: "A History of Spying Gadgets and Methods" by Melanie King
·OnlineOnlineThis talk will cover the gadgets and methods spies have used across the world and throughout history. It was inspired by the speaker’s recent visit to the Berlin Spy Museum–if you haven’t been there, it’s highly recommended. We’ll be hearing about some of the wildly creative schemes, and just plain weird devices, creative people from Britain, America, Russia, Germany and elsewhere have devised over the years. I’m sure some of the engineers and scientists amongst our membership will have a few questions!
Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/29UKbXD-T3K1MXvqlD5EKA
The speaker, Melanie King, is a much-travelled speaker and author who has worked in education, research institutes and think-tanks before becoming a speaker and author, since when she has published seven books, including “Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War” and “The Lady is a Spy: The Tangled Lives of Stan Harding & Marguerite Harrison”. Her other talks include “How the British First Fell in Love with Tea”, “Tricks of the Trade: Spying in the First World War” and “The Forgotten Spas of Bristol Hotwells, Tunbridge Wells, Cheltenham and Brighton”. She has a degree in International Relations from Sussex University and an MPhil from the Refugee Studies Programme at Oxford University.
You can find more about Melanie at https://melaniekingbooks.com"Doors" 7PM
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Talk: “Merton Abbey Mills” by John Hawks of Wandle Industrial Museum
Crossways Community Baptist Church Dorking, Junction Road, Dorking, GBOnce Liberty’s picturesque silk printing works, abandoned in the 70s, saved from demolition and reborn in 1989 as a popular arts, crafts and heritage centre, complete with the archaeological remains of Merton Priory and the only one of over 50 Wandle waterwheels still turning – founding manager John Hawks tells the tale
Doors 7PM. Please come along! £2 for non-members.More at Current Programme – DLHG
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