The Chatham Historical Society’s
2025 Annual Meeting
with keynote speaker and author,
Bernard Cornwell
The title of Mr. Cornwell’s talk is ‘The Lure of History’. He will also be speaking about his most recent book, Sharpe’s Storm, published in 2024.
THURSDAY August 14, 2025 AT 5:00 PM
FREE EVENT
CHATHAM COMMUNITY CENTER, 702 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM, MA
The Chatham Historical Society will be hosting its Annual Meeting on Thursday, August 14. After a brief business meeting discussing the museum’s 2025 season and celebrating the induction of new members into the Board of Trustees, there will be a keynote address by renowned author, researcher, history-enthusiast, husband, and friend, Bernard Cornwell.
The meeting will also highlight plans for the upcoming year at the Atwood Museum, home of the Chatham Historical Society.
This event is free and open to members and the general public. Online registration is required.
This event will take place at the Chatham Community Center at 702 Main Street. Parking is available on site.
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Documents for 2025 Annual Meeting will be available soon.
Get to know this year’s speaker:
author, Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 – a ‘warbaby’ – whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.
He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years.
He began as a researcher on the Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a permit from the US government – and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars – and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing Sharpe.