{"id":4077,"date":"2025-07-03T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4077"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:15:55","slug":"august-2025-monthly-meeting","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?tribe_events=august-2025-monthly-meeting","title":{"rendered":"August 2025 Monthly Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>David Rooney<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>THE BIG HOP<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>For our August 7th meeting we welcome back fellow member of the South London Branch, David Rooney, who has a new book release. When I asked him if he would come and tell us about it, he was a little hesitant at first as it is not a horological subject. \u201cThere has to be navigation there somewhere\u201d I told myself.<br \/>\nOver the years we have enjoyed many lectures from Davids\u2019s repertoire like \u201cSir John Bennet\u201d His impact on Horology, Clocks in Urban Infrastructure, The Greenwich Bomb Outrage and his previous books, \u201cRuth Belville\u201d The Greenwich Time Lady, \u201cAbout Time\u201d A history of civilization in twelve clocks. With a little prompting and reassurance on my part he has agreed to share with us his latest work.<\/p>\n<p><center>THE BIG HOP.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>David Rooney is a writer and curator; he was formerly curator time keeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and Keeper of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum. His latest work which is a true story of the first flight across the Atlantic and the ordinary heroes who risked their lives in pursuit of progress, has been enjoying some very good reviews from the Times, Telegraph, Observer, Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal to name a few. So why not join us, before you fly off in this the holiday month to another dynamic presentation from David Rooney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rooney THE BIG HOP For our August 7th meeting we welcome back fellow member of the South London Branch, David Rooney, who has a new book release. When I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?tribe_events=august-2025-monthly-meeting\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 2025 Monthly Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4077","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4077\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftribe_events_cat&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}