Planned Lectures
Tue, 3 Nov 2026
About the lecture:
Lucy Lawrence, Principal Archaeology Officer at Buckinghamshire Council, will share the results of recent archaeological works undertaken across the border in southern Buckinghamshire
Lucy Lawrence studied archaeology and classical civilisation at the University of Nottingham.
After graduating in 2000 and two years living abroad, she started work for Wessex Archaeology at the Heathrow Terminal 5 excavations.
She then transferred to Oxford Archaeology, where she spent 12 years, initially working in the field, before moving into their in-house consultancy team. In 2015 she joined Cotswold Archaeology as part of the Milton Keynes consultancy department.
Lucy became Principal Archaeology Officer of Buckinghamshire County Archaeology Service in 2018.
Tue, 1 Dec 2026
About the lecture:
The History of Marlow 1651 – 1803: War to War
After the turbulence of the Civil War, Marlow’s fortunes and development stepped up a pace as the Georgian building boom and major new industries transformed the town. Several larger than life individuals arrived from all directions to make their mark. But at the end of the period the country faced a serious new threat, this time from outside.
Geoff has lived in Marlow since 1998 and has been interested in local history for almost that long.
He has taken lead responsibility for the Marlow Society’s involvement in heritage and local history for over 10 years and is currently a member of the society’s very active local history group, which carries out research, publishes articles and arranges talks on a variety of Marlow-based topics.
This talk has its origins in the Marlow Museum exhibition that Geoff and others worked on in 2019 called “The Story of Marlow”.