Folowing on from our visit to the Ancient House in Thetford which is just beside where Thomas Paine was born and raised I was interviewed about the visit by Jon Wright on Radio Suffolk. Thomas Paine wrote the author of Rights of Man, Common Sense and The Age of Reason as well as being the person credited with having written the original version if the United States Declaration of Independence.

The March 2018 Newsletter is now available to download This is the first of our quarterly newsletters (spring,summer,autumn and winter) which will be in addeition to the monthly bulletins, You can download it by clicking on the link below SHandS #1 Spring_2018

Open this page to download our February Newsletter. It contains details about our Darwin dinner – next week on Tuesday 13th Feb at the Swan Westerfield. There are a few places still avaialble and all members are welcome he Newsletter has news of recent events – a meeting with the Quakers, a report of Holocaust Memorial Day and news about our new meeting place. CLICK HERE to download it

Download our latest newsletter to get information about our next meeting on Tuesday 11th which will be about the STEM CELL REVOLUTION. It also contains a report of our June meeting. You can download it here July 2017 SHANDS newsletter.

Read any good books lately? Our next meeting on Tuesday 13th June will be a discussion on books that we have read and which we think others would enjoy. So bring along your favourite book(s) and be prepared to chat about them. (note:the June meeting was incorrectly shown as being on the “Stem Cell Revolution” in the May Newslettter. This is scheduled for July 11th). Newsletter: The June Newsletter is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here.

Our latest Newsletter is now available to download. It contains details of our next meeting on Tuesday 9th May which will be a talk on PSEUDOSCIENCE and how pervasive it has become.  You can download it in PDF form by clicking here

The April Newsletter is now available. It contains information about our upcoming talk on Voltaire 11th April It can be downloaded by clicking here

Our March Newsletter is now available. This contains information about the meeting on March 14th where we will be talking with Lewis Connelly of the Ipswich Unitarian Church. To download it click on the link below March 2017 SHANDS newsletter

Our February Newsletter is now available. Please click here to download it.

Happy New Year to all our visitors Our first meeting of 2017 will be on Tuesday January 10th at 7:30pm in the Darwin Room of Arlington’s Brasserie in Museum Street, Ipswich. Our monthly lunch meeting will be at the Duke of York in Woodbridge on Saturday 28th January at 12 noon. Details of these and other meetings arein our recent newsletter which you can download by clicking here (PDF).