Other Events Across the County

Lillington Local History Society, Parish Church, 4.30pm: Carol Sleight on Lights of Leamington

Voices of Normandy 1944, Fusilier Museum Warwick, 11am - 3:00pm.  Final details to be confirmed,  but a remarkable opportunity to hear from the third generation since WW2,  the testimonies of their great grandfathers and uncles who landed with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on the beaches at D Day, 1944. There will be some overall analysis by Chris Cox, author of 'Action Rear'.

Worsted Weavers Charity Concert 2026, The Saloon, Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth, CV8 2LF, 7pm. : The Coull Quartet with Andrew O’Reilly, Cello. Music includes Schubert Quintet (part), Frank Martin “Pavane”, and
Boccherini Quintet (part). Followed by wine and canapés. Raising funds for The Myton Hospices and Pancreatic Cancer UK. Tickets £50 from https://buytickets.at/worstedweavers/2136361

Rugby Archaeological Society, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 2nd Floor Education Room, Arrival from 10am, starting at 10:30am. The Portable Antiquities Scheme: recent news and local highlights – a round-up of some recent news from the PAS and a look at archaeological finds from the local area.

Bidford & District History Society, Crawford Hall, Salford Road, 7.15pm: Aaron Manning on God’s Anointed: raising aristocratic children in Puritan England

Stoneleigh History Society, Village Hall, 7.30pm: Lisa Reay and Sheila Woolf on Tales from the Churchyard – Part Two

Friends of Holy Trinity Parish Church, Sutton Coldfield, 2pm: Pathways to the Past. Showing of a film made by University of Warwick history students, celebrating several historic sites and people linked to the old county.

Lillington Local History Society, Parish Church, 4.30pm: Peter Coulls on Let’s return to Lillington

The Battle of the Somme 1916, Revisited. Fusilier Museum Warwick, 11am - 3:30pm.  On the 110th anniversary of the Somme Offensive, four speakers, including major historian Gary Sheffield, will explore the Somme Offensive and its place in history.

Friends of Holy Trinity Parish Church, Sutton Coldfield, 2pm: Late Medieval Small towns of the Warwickshire Arden. Explores the latest developments in studies for the small towns of the Warwickshire Arden during the later middle ages, including Birmingham, Solihull, Henley-in-Arden, Kenilworth, Atherstone, Nuneaton and Coleshill

Bidford & District History Society, Crawford Hall, Salford Road, 7.15pm: Mairi Macdonald on Mediaeval Children

Friends of Holy Trinity Parish Church, Sutton Coldfield, 2pm: Archaeology and Nature in Sutton Park and beyond, past and present

Friends of Holy Trinity Parish Church, Sutton Coldfield, 2pm: The journey to Canterbury. The first female Rector of Holy Trinity will tell the story of women’s ministry in the Church of England from early days to the ordination of women as priests through to the historic consecration on 25th March 2026 of the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally DBE.

Lighthorne History Society, Village Hall, 7.30pm: Maggie Wood on Ralph Sheldon and his Wonderful Tapestry

Stretton on Dunsmore History Society, Village Hall, 7.30pm: Kate Mawer on Uncovering the history of a Northamptonshire farmhouse

Lapworth LHG, Lapworth Village Hall, 7.45pm: The Peasants’ Revolt 1381

Rugby Archaeological Society, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 2nd Floor Education Room, Arrival from 10am, starting at 10:30am. Overstone (North) Gate - Bronze Age and Saxon Cemetery and settlement at Overstone.

Rugby Archaeological Society, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 2nd Floor Education Room, Arrival from 10am, starting at 10:30am. Biography of bog bodies project. 

Rugby Archaeological Society, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 2nd Floor Education Room, Arrival from 10am, starting at 10:30am. The care, storage and maintenance of artefacts.