News Sheet August 2021

The Committee have been busy during the lockdown periods and have held two Zoom meetings and recently a face-to-face meeting.  Plans are in hand for future meetings and activities, and these ideas will be shared  with members in due course.

In the meantime, here are some interesting topics to keep you interested in from a variety of websites.

GRESHAM COLLEGE
Use this website www.gresham.ac.uk to find  ‘Watch Past Lectures’. Which gives lots of interesting topics to choose from, just pick a title and ‘click’. 
Also Prof Chris Whitty is speaking on a specialist subject of his ‘Infections & their routes of Transmission’ which I think you may find interesting.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR LOCAL HISTORY 
This is another good website to visit.
I recommend, ‘The story of the ‘Royal British Legion Update’ at
https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/our-centenary/telling-our-story		
LANCASHIRE LOCAL HISTORY FEDERATION
Search the website below to read about other history groups and the work which is going on around the region.  These two items were most interesting, but there is a huge variety so take a look.
www.lancashirehistory.org
Wigan Council’s Archives and Local Studies service has secured a major grant of over £1.3m from the Heritage Lottery Fund thanks to money raised by National Lottery players for the ‘Revealing Wigan Archives’ project
 Bolton museum
 Bolton Museum is undergoing one of its biggest changes since it moved the collections from the old Chadwick Museum to the Crescent in the 1950s. The £3.5 The Contractors at the Hall have now started reconstruction work mainly on the East side of the Hall with floors being inserted. In some parts the new roof structure is now in place. 
A stonemason is now on site to deal with the repair and reconstruction of the decorative stone. The work schedule was delayed by about three months because of the winter weather. There were also structural issues concerning how best to restore the Tower. million re-display of the museum’s world-renowned Egyptology collection, funded by Bolton Council, is also supplemented by a £200k grant from the Wolfson Trust, and will be completed later in 2018.
 The exciting new Egyptology Gallery, ‘Bolton’s Egypt’, will showcase the collection, its history and its collectors, and will include an exact replica of the tomb of Thutmosis III. Ian Trumble, Collections Access Officer for Archaeology, Egyptology and World Cultures, would like to introduce you to the plans for this new gallery. Lectures on the theme of “Bolton’s Egypt yesterday, today and tomorrow” can include the history of the collection, a collection overview, and the new gallery designs, and can last from 30 mins to 90 mins as required.
FANCY A WALK?
If you fancy a walk locally, try this website www.discoverormskirk.com
For the ‘War Horse Walk, Lathom.  An 8.5 mile route from Ormskirk Station to Lathom Park.  Best of luck!

Don’t forget!

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