The Register was taken in September 1939, prior to the issuing of identity cards. Nigel will tell us about some of the interesting (and surprising!) people who were registered in Ewhurst at the beginning of the Second World War, including the first public showing for nearly eighty years, of a home-movie showing evacuees arriving at Ewhurst School.

The mother of Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII, Margaret Beaufort is known as the mother of the Tudor dynasty. James will tell us about her life and influence.