| Society meetings | Fridays | 7:45pm | College of Law, Hatfield Road |
| Architecture & Local History meetings | Tuesdays | 8:00pm | St Albans School |
| Society AGM | Tuesday 16 September 2008 | 8:00pm | Verulamium Museum |
| Tue 9 Sep | R S Craske | Redbourn – a Hertfordshire Village through the Ages
Roy Craske will be leading a walk around Redbourn on 16 September. |
| Tue 16 Sept
followed by: |
The Society AGM
Alison Turner-Rugg |
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| Fri 26 Sep | Prof. Michael Cooper | Five millennia of measuring and mapping the land |
| Tue 7 Oct | Dr Kate Thompson | Housing the Deserving Poor in Hertfordshire – Almshouses and their Inmates |
| Tue 21 Oct | Kate Bretherton | St Albans’ Tree Heritage |
| Fri 31 Oct | Dr Mary Harlow | Childhood in the Roman Empire |
| Tue 11 Nov | David Short | History of Ashwell |
| Tue 18 Nov | Michael Stanyon | Sir John Evans KCB, FRS – An Extraordinary Local Gentleman |
| Fri 28 Nov | Dr Linda Porter | Contrary Mary – Mary Tudor |
| Tue 9 Dec | Ken Peak | Listed Buildings of London Colney |
| Fri 9 Jan | The Society New Year Party |
at Verulamium Museum |
| Tue 13 Jan | Prof. Vivian Nutton | The Black Death Revisited – New Problems & Old Solutions |
| Tue 20 Jan | Dr Jonathan Hunn | The Gorhambury Landscape |
| Fri 30 Jan | Dr Isobel Thompson | The work of the Historic Environment Record – Archaeology of St Albans |
| Tue 10 Feb | Ann Dean | The Church of St Michael – a Hidden Treasure |
| Tue 17 Feb | Tudy Hill | Women of the Pre – From Leper Hospital to Convent |
| Fri 27 Feb | Judy Faraday | Partnership in the Past – John Lewis |
| Tue 10 Mar | Christine Aitken | Childwickbury – a Short Story |
| Tue 17 Mar | Keith Cheyney & Margaret Taylor |
Serve and Obey – a History of Haberdashers’ Aske’s School |
| Fri 27 Mar | Michael Leapman | Inigo Jones and the Hatfield Connection |
| Tue 7 Apr | David Pearce | Hertfordshire You May Have Missed |
| Fri 24 Apr | Prof. Tim Hitchcock | Researching History Using the Old Bailey Online, 1674–1913 |
| Tue 12 May | Richard Boustred | The Palace at Kings Langley – History & Archaeology |
| Tue 19 May | Joan Curran | Totternhoe Stone – the Quarries, the Masons and the Buildings |
| Fri 29 May | Lee Prosser | The Restoration of Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte’s Cottage |
| Tue 11 Sep | Peter Houldcroft | The Royston Cave and the Knights Templar |
| Tue 18 Sep | John and Jo Brewster | Southwark, following the Society's visit |
| Fri 28 Sep | Dr Brenda Bolton | Palmerius of Picciati returns from the wars |
| Tue 2 Oct | Peter Smith | The Ver past and present |
| Tue 9 Oct | Dr Russell Craig | Buildings in Trust; with special reference to Herts |
| Tue 16 Oct | Dr Alan Thompson | Maurice Thompson – a Herts Jacobean yuppie |
| Fri 26 Oct | Dr Diana Webb | St Thomas Becket in Europe |
| Tue 30 Oct | Derek Morris | 18th century Stepney |
| Tue 6 Nov | David Thorold | Roman coins |
| Tue 13 Nov | Polly Bishop | Hatfield House and the Tradescant connection |
| Tue 20 Nov | Frank Kilvington | 19th century St Albans |
| Fri 30 Nov | Dr John Creighton | Romans in Iron Age Britain |
| Tue 4 Dec | Dr Jim Lewis | Development of Industry in the Lea Valley |
| Tue 8 Jan | Dr Gillian Gear | Discovering a Tudor farmhouse in Herts |
| Tue 15 Jan | Anne-Marie Parker | Hidden Hertfordshire |
| Fri 25 Jan | Prof. Simon Keynes | Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture |
| Tue 29 Jan | Ann Dean, Betty Ewens, Rob Weston |
A Victorian Montage |
| Tue 5 Feb | John Higgs | The Cuffley Airship |
| Tue 12 Feb | Stuart Whitefoot | Heraldry in the stained glass of St AlbansAbbey |
| Fri 22 Feb | Dr Diana Webb | Solitude and Privacy in the Middle Ages |
| Tue 26 Feb | Claire Thornton | The Archaeology of Animals |
| Tue 5 Mar | David Stevens | Work and History of the Box Moor Trust |
| Tue 12 Mar | Rob Weston | Sir Mortimer Wheeler |
| Tue 19 Mar | John Cotton | London before Londinium |
| Fri 22 Mar | Medieval Social Welfare | |
| Tue 16 Apr | Rev Anders Berquist | St Albans Abbey before the Normans |
| Fri 26 Apr | Dr Ulrike Schaeffer | The Niebelungen Sagas |
| Tue 30 Apr | Simon West | Local Excavations 2000–01 |
| Tue 14 May | Valerie Edwards | Chenies – its history and gardens |
| Tue 31 May | Dr Gillian Gear | Certified Industrial Schools in the 19th century |
| Tue 10 Sep | Grp. Capt. Peter Garth | Cardington and its Airships |
| Tue 17 Sep | Michael West | Slipping the Gilbert Collection into Somerset House |
| Fri 27 Sep | Michael Hardy | Anglo-Saxon Churches |
| Tue 1 Oct | David Dean | Inns and Ale Houses |
| Tue 8 Oct | Sam Moorshead | Cosmopolitan Roman Britain |
| Tue 15 Oct | Robin Webb | 200 years of Much Hadham Forge |
| Fri 25 Oct | Dr Jonathan Phillips | Richard and Saladin |
| Tue 29 Oct | Bruce Watson | Medieval London Bridge – Lost and Found |
| Tue 5 Nov | Len Groome | London Bridge in America – the story up to date |
| Tue 12 Nov | Reg Nice | History of the Manors of Abbots Langley |
| Tue 19 Nov | Col. J D Sainsbury | The Auxiliary Hospitals in Herts, 1914–18 |
| Fri 29 Nov | Dr Melvin Sabshin | A Short History of Psychiatry |
| Tue 3 Dec | Margaret Wilson | St Albans Road Names |
| Tue 7 Jan | The Brickmakers of St Albans | |
| Tue 14 Jan | George Crutcher | Beer Brewing in Hertfordshire |
| Tue 4 Feb | John Fadelle | Scammell – an evocative Herts name |
| Tue 11 Feb | Elizabeth Buteux | Children and straw plaiting in Herts |
| Tue 18 Feb | Phil Carter | Conservation in St Albans |
| Fri 28 Feb | Prof. James Walvin | Britain's role in Slavery |
| Tue 4 Mar | Tony Rook | A History of Hertfordshire |
| Tue 11 Mar | Hugh Lewis | A History of Bushey |
| Tue 18 Mar | Ann Dean | Abbey Parish Street Memorials |
| Fri 28 Mar | Dr Janette Delaine | Ostia |
| Tue 1 Apr | Phil Birtles | De Havilland history |
| Fri 25 Apr | Dr Mark Goldie | Roger Morrice and his "Entring Book" |
| Tue 29 Apr | Jane Kelsall | The British Parish Church |
| Tue 13 May | Betty Masters | St Albans and the 1553 Charter |
| Tue 20 May | Richard Lavender | A History of Herts Bridges |
| Fri 30 May | David Hopkins | Art, Industry and Coalbrookdale |
| Tue 9 Sep | Ken Cox | Shuttleworth Aviation History |
| Tue 16 Sep | Mary Hanson | Thomas Claughton – 1st Bishop of St Albans |
| Fri 26 Sep | Archdeacon Clifford Offer | Hitchin, Mercia and the Councils of Clofesho |
| Tue 30 Sep | Charles le Quegne | Rediscovering an Ancient Landscape at the Grove, Watford |
| Tue 7 Oct | Rob Masefield | Discoveries on the A41 at Aston Clinton – from Late Iron Age to Saxon |
| Tue 14 Oct | David Keen | The RAF Museum and some links with Hertfordshire |
| Tue 21 Oct | John Neal | St Albans – a Pint and a Prayer |
| Fri 31 Oct | Joan Perkins | The Merry Duchess of St Albans |
| Tue 4 Nov | Robin Perkins | The Cecil Family and Hatfield House |
| Tue 11 Nov | Dr J D Hill | Why Verulamium? Hertfordshire in the Late Iron Age |
| Sat 15 Nov | Dr Stephen Alford | Public Lecture 1553: A Year that Shaped a Century |
| Tue 18 Nov | Bruce Watson | Roman London Civic Water Supply |
| Fri 28 Nov | Allen Eyles | Picture Palaces |
| Tue 2 Dec | John Dick | The Mossman Vehicle Collection at Stockwood Park, Luton |
| Tue 13 Jan | Robert Lancaster | Spirella – the Age of Constriction |
| Tue 20 Jan | Jane Kelsall | Baptism and Fonts in Great Britain |
| Fri 30 Jan | George Atkinson | Palladio and his influences on English Architecture |
| Tue 3 Feb | Rosemary Stevens | Calligraphy |
| Tue 10 Feb | John Higgs | My view from the Towpath – from Bow to Hertford |
| Tue 17 Feb | John Glanville | Antique English Clocks |
| Fri 27 Feb | John Brodrick | The Dark Ages |
| Tue 2 Mar | Chris Reynolds | Poaching and Petty Thieving in St Albans |
| Tue 9 Mar | Peter Evans | The Bones of St Alban |
| Tue 16 Mar | Clive Walter | Abbey Wall Paintings |
| Fri 26 Mar | C Stell | Nonconformist Chapels |
| Tue 30 Mar | Aubrey Roberts | The Independent Chapel of St Albans – 300 Years of History |
| Tue 6 Apr | Robin Webb | Thatching |
| Tue 20 Apr | Brian Limbrick | The British School – bringing Literacy to the Industrial Revolution |
| Fri 30 Apr | Dr Paul Roberts | Rome – Art and Emperors |
| Tue 11 May | Chris Green, Director of St Albans Museums |
A Tudor Axle-treed Cart found in St Albans |
| Tue 18 May | Peter Adams | Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills |
| Fri 28 May | Vivienne Smith | Blazing Trails Down Under |
| Fri 16 July | Prof. John Gillingham | Public Lecture The World of Richard the Lionheart |
| Tue 7 Sept | Dr Stuart Bryant | Landscape and Ritual – The Late Iron Age of Hertfordshire |
| Tue 14 Sept | John Wood | Development Pressures in Hertfordshire |
| Fri 24 Sept | Adrian Gibson | Kingsbury Barn and related buildings |
| Tue 28 Sept | Anthony Spence | The Iron Age Chariot: Recent discoveries and interpretations |
| Tue 5 Oct | Gene Mitchell | St Albans – water, rail and Victorian Gothic |
| Tue 12 Oct | Ann Dean | Mr Telford’s by-pass – the making of Verulam Road |
| Tue 19 Oct | John Fisher | The Mary Rose |
| Fri 29 Oct | Prof. John Morrill | Cromwell – warts and all |
| Tue 2 Nov | Steven Potter | Tiles in the Abbey |
| Tue 9 Nov | Peter Street | Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition |
| Tue 16 Nov | Derek Peters | History of London – Part I |
| Fri 26 Nov | John Credland | The History of Popular Photography |
| Tue 30 Nov | Rob Masefield | Archaeological Finds in Colchester |
| Tue 7 Dec | David Dean | St Albans Historic Landscape |
| Tue 18 Jan | Tony Billings
Rob Weston |
Thomas Fowler – A St Albans Worthy
Grimthorpe – A St Albans Giant |
| Fri 28 Jan | Prof. Nigel Goose | Child Employment in 19c Hertfordshire in Perspective – Varieties of Childhood |
| Tue 1 Feb | Simon West | Cremation Burials at Turners Hall Farm, Wheathamstead |
| Tue 8 Feb | Teresa Wild | Lord Rothschild & the Tring Museum |
| Tue 15 Feb | Jeremy Ingham | Investigation of historic lime-based building materials |
| Fri 25 Feb | John Brodrick | Ancient Technology |
| Tue 1 Mar | Elizabeth Buteux | The Lost Inns of the High Street |
| Tue 8 Mar | Richard Abdey | Labelled Heads – Portraits on coins and medals |
| Fri 18 Mar | Prof. John Baker | Britons in Post-Roman Hertfordshire – the place name evidence |
| Tue 22 Mar | Kate Morris & the Property History Group |
How St Albans Has Changed and Developed – who did what, where |
| Tue 5 Apr | Alan Featherstone | History of Redbourn |
| Tue 19 Apr | John Brodrick | Our EvolvingView of the Romans |
| Fri 29 Apr | Dr Clive Foxall | The Strange Story of the Metropolitan Railway |
| Tue 10 May | Simon West | Verlamio – Verulamium |
| Tue 17 May | Richard Hobbs | Our Past Treasure – Finds from England and Wales |
| Fri 27 May | Kate Harwood | Indian Influences on 18c English Gardens |
| Tue 6 Sept 05 | Peter Collins | The Organ Builder of Redbourn |
| Tue 13 Sept 05 | T C Stevens | The Keeper of Berkhamsted Castle |
| Tue 20 Sept 05 | Bruce Watson | Excavations at the Roman Port of London |
| Fri 30 Sept 05 | Prof. Andrew Lambert | Nelson – Death and Transfiguration |
| Tue 4 Oct 05 | Tony Woodhouse | Illustrated History of Dunstable and its Priory |
| Tue 11 Oct 05 | Michael West | Conversion of the Earl of Clarendon's Mansion at Chandler's Cross |
| Tue 18 Oct 05 | Chris Reynolds | The Army in St Albans in WWI |
| Fri 28 Oct 05 | David Harrison | Bridges of Medieval England |
| Tue 1 Nov 05 | Gene Mitchell | Slum Life in 19th century King's Cross |
| Tue 8 Nov 05 | Hugh Lewis | Sir Hubert Herkomer – Bushey's Victorian Painter |
| Tue 15 Nov 05 | Kevin Fitzgerald | The Protection of Rural England |
| Fri 25 Nov 05 | Dr John Schofield | London and the Gunpowder Plot |
| Tue 29 Nov 05 | John Cox | “Jim Forrester” – a.k.a. 5th Earl of Verulam |
| Tue 6 Dec 05 | Jane Kelsall | Gothic Revival – it started much earlier than you think. |
| Tue 17 Jan | Isobel Leek | Victorian Garden History |
| Fri 27 Jan | Paul Chamberlain | Prisoners of War in Britain, 1793–1815 |
| Tue 31 Jan | Robin Webb | A Silk Purse from a Pig's Nose |
| Tue 7 Feb | Ann Dean | 2000 Years of St Michael's Street |
| Tue 14 Feb | Deryck Hannaford | The Carillon at the Abbey |
| Fri 24 Feb | Dr Susan Mary Grant | New Light on the Lady With the Lamp |
| Tue 28 Feb | Dr J D Hill | In Search of the Druids – The Realities of Religion in Iron Age Britain |
| Tue 7 Mar | John Wooley | The Great Train Robbery |
| Fri 24 Mar | Alan Frost | Restoration of Windsor Castle – After the Fire |
| Tue 28 Mar | Revd Peter Wadsworth | Rule and Reality – Life in a Great Medieval Abbey |
| Tue 4 April | David Dean | St Albans Historical Landscape post AD1250 |
| Tue 11 April | George Atkinson | St Pancras Station – Midland Link, Thames Link, Euro Link |
| Fri 28 April | William Palin | Inexhaustible Fancy and Solid Judgement
The Life and Works of Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736) |
| Tue 9 May | Alex Thompson | Romans in the Bulbourne Valley |
| Tue 16 May | David Thorold | 2000 Years of Coinage |
| Fri 26 May | Anne Rowe | Lost Gardens of Hertfordshire |
| Tue 5 Sept | John Ely, Shenley Park Trust | New (Herts) parks with historical links |
| Tue 12 Sept | Elizabeth Eastwood, City Guide | An illustrated walk round Wheathampstead |
| Tue 19 Sept | Donato Cinicolo | Hedges in St Albans and the craft of hedgelaying |
| Fri 29 Sept | Barrie Trinder | The Industrial Archaeology of World War II |
| Tue 3 Oct | Jennie Sherwood, Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society | Berkhamsted through the ages |
| Tue 10 Oct | Justin James | Redbournbury watermill – past, present & future |
| Tue 17 Oct | Prof. Burland DSc CBE | Propping up Pisa |
| Fri 27 Oct | Alison Dickens, Cambridge University Archaeological Unit | Archaeological excavations on the old Robert Sayle site, Cambridge |
| Tue 31 Oct | Duane Parkin | The Tabard – restoration of a 14th century building |
| Tue 7 Nov | R A M Harvey | Bribery & corruption (St Albans included) – the unreformed electoral system |
| Tue 14 Nov | Jean Peyton, Cathedral Guide | Paul of Caen |
| Fri 24 Nov | Jill Barber, County Local Studies Librarian at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies | Treasures of the Archives |
| Tue 28 Nov | Heather Falvey, Hertfordshire Record Society | The More – Cardinal Wolsey's palace at Rickmansworth |
| Tue 5 Dec | Irene Cowan | The 17th Century Population Research Group |
| Tue 16 Jan | Nicholas Maddex, Codicote Local History Society | Tales & Legends of Mid-Hertfordshire |
| Fri 26 Jan | Kate Morris | Trade and transport on English waterways |
| Tue 30 Jan | Rev Peter Wadsworth | St Albans and the Peasants' Revolt |
| Tue 6 Feb | Peter Hurford OBE | Music in St Albans Abbey, 1958–78 – a personal view |
| Tue 13 Feb | Brian and Kathleen Moody | From melons to rugger balls – the history of Holywell House grounds |
| Fri 23 Feb | Gareth Harris | The Story of Spitalfields |
| Tue 27 Feb | Janet Miles | Archaeology – a digger's eye view |
| Tue 6 Mar | Sam Mullins, Director, London's Transport Museum and onetime Director, St A Museums | From Dickens to the District Line – passengers' experience of bus and tube in Victorian and Edwardian London |
| Tue 20 Mar | Miss M Wilson | Local monumental brasses |
| Fri 30 Mar | Sue Shave | Chiltern Open Air Museum – A Vision for the Future |
| Tue 3 Apr | Michael Rose, Abbey Guide | The painted ceilings of St Albans Abbey |
| Tue 17 Apr | Norman Oldknow, Gene Peyton-Jones and Nancy Page |
Revising the Cathedral inventory. |
| Fri 27 Apr | Georgia Butters | Pumps, pigs and people – the realities of opening archaeology to the public |
| Tue 8 May | Ann Dean | Let's keep it in the family – the Rowlatts and the Bacons |
| Fri 25 May | Peter Street | The Great Fire of London |
| Tue 4 Sep | Robert Lancaster | The Pioneer Years – Origins and Early Years of Letchworth Garden City |
| Tue 11 Sep | John Cox | “Fatty” Cavan – a Hertfordshire Field-Marshal |
| Tue 18 Sep | Gill Cordingley | The Story of St Leonard’s Church – Hertford’s Oldest Building |
| Tue 25 Sept | Chris Green, Director of St Albans Museums |
Useful and beautiful – understanding trade tools from 1500 to the present |
| Fri 28 Sep | Dr Anne Stott
Note change of speaker |
The Life of William Wilberforce |
| Tue 2 Oct | Jenny Stroud | Thirteen Months as St Albans Mayor |
| Tue 9 Oct | Jill Singer | Uncovering Kingsbury Manor |
| Tue 16 Oct | Barbara Chapman | The Forgotten Historic Landscape of the Leverstock Green Area |
| Fri 26 Oct | Dorian Gerhold, Clerk of the Trade and Industry Committee at the House of Commons |
Goods and passenger transport by road before and after the turnpikes – concentrating on road services before turnpiking had a major impact (c.1750/60), and (briefly) on the period following. |
| Tue 30 Oct | Jane Kelsall | Dissolution of the Monasteries – what happened at St Albans? |
| Tue 6 Nov | Clare Ellis | Hertfordshire – home of the pharmaceutical industry |
| Tue 13 Nov | Dr Jill Barber | Hertfordshire's Links with the Slave Trade and its Abolition |
| Tue 20 Nov | David Short
Note change of speaker |
Mapping the Past – the Hertfordshire Historical Atlas |
| Fri 30 Nov | Dr Rosamund Bartlett,
Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at the University of Oxford |
The Edge of Empires – the Story of the Balkans. The history of the Slav countries in South-East Europe focusing on their successive relationships with the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, and the Great Powers. |
| Tue 4 Dec | Dr Howlett | From Coal Mine to Comet – Reminiscences of Hatfield |
| Tue 11 Dec
followed by: |
Betty Ewens
Gerard McSweeney |
Sander – St Albans Orchid King
The Redoubtable Duchess and Her Almshouses |
| Tue 15 Jan | Robert Bard | Elstree – Britain’s Hollywood |
| Fri 25 Jan | David Dean, former President of this Society |
Votes for Sovereigns – St Albans Shamed. Parliamentary elections were once very robust affairs and St Albans was well to the fore in strong arm tactics, bribery and treating, culminating in the Bribery Commission and disfranchisement of St Albans. |
| Tue 29 Jan | Dr Richard Simons | A Butcher's Daybook – Abbots Langley in 1828 |
| Tue 5 Feb | Dr Bill Martin | Geophysical Surveys Around Hertfordshire |
| Tue 12 Feb | Jacky Bennett | Apsley Mill and the History of Paper-making |
| Tue 19 Feb | Caroline Rawle | The Story of Welwyn Garden City |
| Fri 29 Feb | Kate Colquhoun, author of a biography of Paxton |
A Thing in Disguise – the Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton – Head Gardener at Chatsworth, designer of the Crystal Palace, newspaper owner, MP, railway entrepreneur, parks designer and architect |
| Tue 4 Mar | Dr Ralph Jackson | Roman Medicine |
| Tue 11 Mar | Brian Adams | Ways to Annoy the Enemy – St. Albans and the Napoleonic War |
| Tue 18 Mar | The Library Staff | The Arc and Arc Library |
| Fri 28 Mar | George Ireland,
contributor to the new Dictionary of National Biography. |
From Family Gold to Family Gout – Plutocrats, a Rothschild Inheritance. Nathan Rothschild was the very ideal of boundless wealth in the nineteenth century. |
| Tue 1 Apr | Victor Ludlow | Flags, Feathers and Further Communication Methods |
| Tue 8 Apr | Rev Peter Wadsworth | St Albans and The Peasants’ Revolt |
| Tue 15 Apr | Dr Alan McWhirr | St Albans Fire Service – a History |
| Fri 25 Apr | Dr Tom Williamson,
author of “The Origins of Hertfordshire” and “The Parks and Gardens of West Hertfordshire”. |
How Old is the Landscape? The age of field boundaries in Hertfordshire and surrounding counties – what field boundaries can show us about the extent of open fields in medieval Hertfordshire, and whether pre-medieval elements have survived in the modern landscape. |
| Tue 29 Apr | Vicky Rawlings | The 150 Cottage – Letchworth G.C. and the 1905 Cheap Cottage Exhibition |
| Tue 6 May | Elaine Beckett, London Guide | Heart of Empire – The Story of a (London) Street Corner |
| Tue 20 May | Peter Lawrence | Beneath City Streets – London’s Hidden history |
| Fri 30 May | Harvey Watson,
a keen supporter of the Battlefields Trust |
The First Battle of St Albans, 1455 – the start of the Wars of the Roses, the longest period of civil strife in English history. The talk covers the battle and its political background, and investigates what landmarks can be seen today. |