Hall Street, Open 11 March to 29 May 2016, every Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm, FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the history and legacy of Marconi and the Marconi Company in Chelmsford, a free commemorative event entitled Marconi: Building the Wireless Age will be hosted over a period of three months in the original Grade II listed Marconi Factory in Hall Street prior to its conversion into residential and commercial units.
CSES will be running hands-on Science and Engineering activities and a series of talks have been organised (pre-booking is required).
Archival material from a variety of sources will be showcased, in many cases for the first time. Contributors include The International Marconi Museum in Bologna, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford Museums and several private collections. Local families with their own small collections of Marconi-related memorabilia have also contributed.
Read more: Building the Wireless Age: A Unique Marconi Exhibition
CSES Presidential Dinner, Thursday 28 April 2016, 7.00 for 7.30 pm, The Warren Golf & Country Club
We are pleased to welcome members and their guests to our 2016 President's Dinner, and are now accepting bookings.
With a great menu and our speaker Professor David Humber (Provost of Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford Campus) due to deliver a talk intriguingly entitled Infectious diseases I'd rather not catch again!, this promises to be an excellent evening.
Videos of two of our most high-profile lectures are now available exclusively to CSES members.
We have uploaded the recordings of the following events:
- Making Waves: How Marconi's Wireless Legacy Takes us Ever Further Into Space (an exciting and well-attended talk by Marconi's grandson himself, Professor Francesco Paresce Marconi)
- Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1 (by the renowned Dr Elizabeth Bruton, a world-leading expert on the history of the Marconi Company, who gave a special talk in Chelmsford on this very subject)
If you are not yet a member, visit our membership section to find out how to join or register.
We are very pleased to release the coming season's lecture programme, organised in partnership with the IET, IMechE and IOP.
Please see our Events section for this year's programme.
Do keep an eye our here on the website for other events to be added soon, including the 2016 Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition.
This year the Chelmsford Civic Society is co-ordinating the Heritage Open Days on behalf of the City Council. These take place between Thursday the 10th and Sunday the 13th of September. Nationally the Heritage Open Days is managed by the National Trust. Last year the sites that were open attracted over three million people. All events are free.
Read more: Heritage Open Days in Chelmsford: 10 - 13 September
A forward-thinking initiative from Essex County Council is helping plug the gap of highly-skilled workers in the science, technology and engineering sectors in Britain today.
Damning findings from a recent Confederation of British Industry report have revealed more than half of employers fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers.
In an attempt to address this, four years ago (2011), Essex County Council launched the Education and Industry STEM programme to directly target shortages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Read more: Essex businesses challenged to provide 500 experiences to highly-skilled youngsters
IOP/CSES lecture: Our Dynamic Sun, Wednesday 1 July 2015, Anglia Ruskin University
We are pleased to announce the addition of another lecture to our 2014/2015 programme, organised by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
The talk, by Dr Helen Mason from the University of Cambridge, review what we have learnt about the active Sun, in particular what we know (and don't yet know!) about solar active regions and flares, and how this solar activity affects the Earth's environment.
Monday 2 March 2015, 19.30, Anglia Ruskin University
We are very excited to announce the addition of a talk to our programme, entitled Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1, by Dr Elizabeth Bruton of the University of Oxford.
Read more: New talk added to our programme: The Birth of the Signalling War
We are pleased to advise that the photos from our workshop, Build a working alarm system with a Raspberry Pi, are now available.
The event was held at the Chelmsford Ideas Hub on 2 November 2014, as part of the Ideas Festival.
We are pleased to announce that the 2014-2015 lecture series – arranged in collaboration with our partners the IET, IMechE and IoP – is finalised.
This year's programme includes an exciting talk by Professor Paresce Marconi (the grandson of Guglielmo Marconi). Book now for free to secure your seats!
Further details of the 2014-2015 calendar can be found in the Events section.
Read more: 2014-2015 lecture series to include a talk by Marconi
- FES FutureNetwork 2014
- Café Scientifique: The Night Sky
- IOP lecture: Particle Physics
- The inaugural CSES Café Scientifique
- Heartbleed security update
- Obituary: David Speake
- Book now for the 2014 CSES Presidential Dinner
- Book now for the 2015 CSES Presidential Dinner
- The CSES 2014 Annual Dinner: save the date
- FES FutureNetwork Event