September 2007

In this issue: A 'snap shot' of the current Bulletin

Our subscriptions reviewed: Every decade or so, the Society finds that its income is not quite keeping up with its outgoings and we need, therefore, to review our only income source - our members' subscriptions. This is what our Executive Committee has been doing for some months and its conclusions are now ready to be put to our members. A Special General Meeting is needed for members to consider the Executive Committe's proposals.

Special general Meeting:
Thursday 27 September at 8pm
before the Members' Meeting on Richmond Park
- see current Bulletin for full announcement

The Putney Debates - in October
One of the most important and radical encounters in Britain's constitutional history took place in St Mary's Church, Putney, in October 1647 - the Putney Debates. A special week's celebration to mark the anniversary of this historic event takes place at St Mary's in late October. Our October Members' Meeting provides a preview of this celebration.
It is on Friday 5 October starting at 7.30pm.
Our speaker, Diane Purkiss, professor at Keble College, Oxford, and the author of 'The English Civil War: A People's History', will talk on the background to the Putney Debates. She will outline the ideas which excited the Levellers, Diggers, Anabaptists, Parliamentarians and Landowners - and talk of their leaders. The Civil War was a time when ordinary men who fought and women who lived with tragedy found their political voice for the first time - a voice so strongly heard in St Mary's Church, Putney. This meeting is the Society's contribution to the Wandsworth Arts Festival. All are welcome to attend.

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