Speaker: Dr Mark Pegg. NOTE: This, unusually, is on a Thursday, starting at 6.15pm for AGM, 6.30pm lecture

Dartmouth, Devon, was a significant coal bunkering port for steamships from the late 19th century, employing large numbers of tough, competitive workers called coal lumpers who manually loaded coal from barges/hulks into ships’ bunkers,…

Speaker Colin White has identified the locations and condition of around twenty-five World War II covert listening stations (known as “Y-Stations”) in the West Country, many along the strategically important coastlines of…

For 75 years, AWE has proudly played a role of critical national importance: helping deliver the UK’s nuclear deterrent. In 1950, Aldermaston became the site of the UK Government’s Atomic…