Welcome to details about our 2025/26 Speaker programme.
We use a number of different venues so always check the details. Our usual talks are held at the renovated Chapel in Wisbech General Cemetery. However, for speaker events where we expect a large turnout we have started using Wisbech Rugby club. We also have the occasional meeting at the Secret Garden, so…..always check the detail on the poster and always book. Speakers are being booked all the time so if one month doesn’t have a speaker, then they haven’t yet been booked. We don’t have a speaker in December, and it’s our AGM in April. The speaker season starts in September and the last talk is usually in March.
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Challenges of Climate Change in Egypt’s Theban Mountain
A talk by Dr Judith Bunbury. She is at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences.
The Theban Mountain, near Luxor in Upper Egypt is, today, a desert but it contains thousands of traces of past human activity. In ancient times, people came into the desert to hunt, herd, bury their dead and to pray. The New Kingdom Research Foundation has recently discovered the original burial place of Tutmosis II, and noted that it was overwhelmed by flooding soon after he was interred. Contemporary climate change is again affecting the area and, from the past environment, we can anticipate future changes and mitigate their effects on the heritage.