This group started in November 2025. We hold a meeting once a month and each time we are considering events in a specific century. Members choose any topic to talk about, for ten minutes, that is linked to the century and you do not need to do a talk unless you want to.

Contact Steve Gibbs for more information about the group

Topics covered

12-June-2026: 14th Century

• History of Spain
• The death if Richard 2
• The little ice age
• The Inca empire
• The Printing Press

May-2026:

• The Black death
• The peasants revolt
• The battle of Bannockburn
• Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel in Padua
• Katherine Swynford, Mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt

April-2026

• The history of Spain
• The Scottish wars of Independence
• The history surrounding Palma Cathedral, Mallorca

March-2026

• Magna Carta
• Simon de Montford
• Mali empire

Jan/Feb 2026 12th century

• Saladin
• Hildefard of Bingen
• Knights Templar

Dec 2025-12th century

• Bayeux Tapestry
• Domesday and tax fairness
• India 12^th Century 12^th Century – Delhi Qutab Minar

Nov 2025 11th century

• Tiwanaku: Pre Incas and  Aztec
• History of Spain and Portugal
• Siege of Exeter 1068 and Rougemont castle
• Macbeth
• Norman castles
• How the Norman conquest changed England