u3a

Wheathampstead

History

Status:Active, open to new members
Contact:
When: Monthly on Tuesday afternoons
Last Tuesday of the month
Venue: The Marford Memorial Hall

We meet in the Lamer Room in the Memorial Hall.

The Convenor is Dianne Payne.

Wheathampstead u3a History Group

U3A HISTORY GROUP PROGRAMME

September 2025 – July 2026

Tuesdays 2.30 pm Lamer Room, Marford Memorial Hall

We currently have 40 members

This season’s programme includes a wide range of illustrated talks on topics from medieval times to the present day. We aim to explore subjects we did not learn about at school.

30 September

28 October

25 November

27 January

24 February

31 March

5 May

26 May

30 June

28 July

An Olympian hero from ‘Chariots of Fire’

Operation Anthropoid and the Parachutists’ Last Stand

A Memorable Victorian Vicar

The Pickpockets of Greenwich Fair

The Corfu Channel Incident, 1946

The Wharncliffe Colliery Disaster of 1936

Roads, Rails and Residents: The Evolution of Two Hertfordshire Villages                             

The Dancing Plague of 1518

The Hatton Garden Heist

From ‘The Little Ice Age’ to Climate Change