December 5, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
A small city with a cathedral, occupied by the Romans with significant ruins remaining. Sounds familiar? Geoff Harrison, twice mayor of St Albans, will help us discover more about Fano, the Italian city with whom St Albans has been twinned since 1998.
December 7, 2023
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
SAHAAS Library, Sandridge Gate Business Centre, Ronsons Way, St Albans, AL4 9XR
What are the origins of Devil's Dyke in Wheathampstead and Beech Bottom Dyke in the north of St Albans? Mike Smith leads the discussion.
January 9, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church only
Hertfordshire has long hosted sites such as airfields, aircraft and individuals that have played a key role in the history of aviation. Guy Thomas has a long interest in aviation heritage and will talk about the county's contribution.
January 12, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
St Stephen's Church Hall, St Stephens Church, St Albans
Welcome the New Year with fellow members and guests in a convivial evening of conversation and quizzes, with displays of Society activities. A finger buffet and drinks ~~(alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available.
January 16, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Zoom only
Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) was a talented and energetic engineer, scientist and businessman, best known for the monumental tower that he built in Paris. Douglas Irvine, a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers, will discuss his wide-ranging career.
January 23, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church
Tim Boatswain, Professor of History and Anthropology, will discuss architectural features such as the recently-conserved succubus at the Christopher Inn passageway, part of folklore and mythology as well as a reminder of the creative imagination of the people who made them.
February 6, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
Eileen Gascoigne, an Ambassador for Stowe House, explores the rise and fall of the Temple-Grenville family, originally responsible for the house’s development, highlighting their great social and political ambitions, and the three sales leading to the eventual creation of Stowe School in 1923.
February 13, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Zoom only
Professor Jane Downes, Director of the Orkney-based UHI Archaeology Institute, presents research results from survey and excavation in the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, including well-known sites of Ring of Brodgar and Stones of Stenness and a remarkable array of further complexity of this outstanding landscape discovered through remote sensing.
February 20, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church
Dr Julie Moore, a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Hertfordshire, will explore the contribution to the life of both church and town of women such as Mrs Isabella Worley, who stepped in to support the establishment of Christ Church in Verulam Road, previously intended as a Roman Catholic church, as an Anglican church.
