In early 2020, before the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic, Sandy Walkington joined St Albans Mayor Janet Smith to launch the 175th birthday celebrations of the Society at the Verulamium Museum.
The varied lecture programme offered by the Society is evident from this record of lectures from 2001 to 2020.
The St Albans pageants of 1907, 1948 and 1953 were typical of the outbreaks of ‘pageant fever’ that afflicted communities across Britain at various times during the twentieth century.
Isobel Thompson reviews the conference on late Roman Verulamium held at the end of June 2019, co-organised by the Society with Welwyn Archaeological Society and St Albans Museums.