Below is the planned list of talks for 2025.
A link to previous talks is here: Probus talks 1997-2024
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10-Jan-2025 |
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough |
Dr Gillian White |
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17-Jan-2025 |
Post box history |
Ray Stockall |
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24-Jan-2025 |
HS2 |
Douglas Butler |
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31 Jan 2025 |
AGM |
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7 Feb 2025 |
Chedworth Roman Villa |
Mike Spittle |
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14 Feb 2025 |
The Golden Age of Hollywood |
Lesley Holland |
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21 Feb 2025 |
Tax, Care & The New Guy |
David Brittain |
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28 Feb 2025 |
Putin’s Russia |
David Head |
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7 Mar 2025 |
My Life in Uniform (RAF & Special Forces) |
Anji Scofield |
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14 Mar 2025 |
Operation Mikado – Operation “Certain Death” |
Wg Cdr David Musgrave |
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21 Mar 2025 |
The Dymock Poets |
Di Whitaker |
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28 Mar 2025 |
Pompeii |
Mike Clegg |
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4 Apr 2025 |
New York, New England, Miami and the Rockies |
John Southworth |
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11 Apr 2025 |
Spring lunch at the RAU |
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18 Apr 2025 |
Good Friday – no meeting |
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25 Apr 2025 |
British WW2 Propaganda Films |
Lesley Holland |
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2 May 2025 |
May Day traditions |
Mike Bottomley |
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9 May 2025 |
Artificial Intelligence: the future is now |
David Handby |
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16 May 2025 |
Jeanne d’Arc—Myth or Martyr? |
Mike Aggleton |
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23 May 2025 |
Tuneful Tubes? |
David Wornham |
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30 May 2025 |
Flanders & Swann |
John Hodgson |
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6 June 2025 |
Vintage Transport in Gloucestershire |
Kate Peake |
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13 Jun 2025 |
Steps to Victory — the final 18 months of WW2 |
Bill King |
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20 Jun 2025 |
It is about Time – development and history of our modern calendar |
Peter Petrie |
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27 Jun 2025 |
Inside Intelligence from Röntgen Rays |
Brian Witcombe |
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4 Jul 2025 |
Summer garden party |
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11 Jul 2025 |
The Vietnam War |
Tim Brain |
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18 Jul 2025 |
History of Punch & Judy |
Phil Collins |
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25 Jul 2025 |
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock |
Lesley Holland |
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1 Aug 2025 |
A Wye Valley Tour |
Kate Peake |
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8 Aug 2025 |
Brunel’s SS Great Britain |
Ian Caskie |
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15 Aug 2025 |
Meeting at SteveW’s house. |
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22 Aug 2025 |
Thomas Jefferson – a talented, conflicted man of his times |
Geoff King |
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29 Aug 2025 |
Glorious Coloured Gemstones |
Helen Plumb |
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5 Sep 2025 |
A walk on the Thames Path (Part Six) – from Teddington Lock to Chiswick |
Bill King |
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12 Sep 2025 |
Past, Present, Presence |
Carole Britton |
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19 Sep 2025 |
USS Missouri model |
Steve Briancourt |
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26 Sep 2025 |
Smethwick: A History |
Malcolm Lewis & Ray Stockwell |
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3 Oct 2025 |
t.b.a. |
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10 Oct 2025 |
A walk on the Thames Path (Part Seven) |
Bill King |
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17 Oct 2025 |
A Perfect Tree |
Ray Hawes |
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24 Oct 2025 |
The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson, Part 2: the Presidential Slavemaster |
Geoff King |
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31 Oct 2025 |
t.b.a. |
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7 Nov 2025 |
No talk. (group visit to the Bombay Sapphire distillery) |
Steve Wigzell |
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