Co-ordinator: Betty Guinery, 01707 881670
Meetings are held in the community room, Guessens Court, Guessens Grove, WGC, AL8 6RQ. The two groups meet on alternate Thursday mornings, so group 1 meets on week one, group 2 on week two, and so on.
"History in the Making" was originally just "History", but since the general preference was to read biographies of famous people, and how they affected the course of history, we decided to change the title.
Currently our original group are reading "Bluestockings" by Jane Robinson, the remarkable story of the first women to fight for education. Did you know that, although women could study and take the exams at Cambridge University, they weren't allowed to graduate until 1948!
"I hope your daughter wears woollen combinations in winter. That is of more importance to her than passing Matriculation." Miss Buss, Headmistress of North London Collegiate School for Girls.
We have a very small second group, hoping to expand, reading "A Commonwealth of Thieves" by Thomas Keneally. It's a fascinating account of the first settlement of convicts in Botany Bay. The hardships on board ship and ashore suffered by the convicts, crew, and those responsible for them seem insupportable, but somehow they survived.
We take turns to read our books aloud, most of them borrowed from the library: of course we do stop to commente on the books as we go along.