October 10, 2020 - January 31, 2021
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
St Albans Museum + Gallery, Town Hall, St Peter's Street, St Albans, AL1 3DH
In accordance with Covid 19 related restrictions, the Society's 175th anniversary exhibition in the St Albans Museum + Gallery in the Old Town Hall is closed. The exhibition is scheduled to close permanently on 31 January 2021. The online version remains available.
February 2, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Dr Seb Falk uses the story of John of Westwyck, who entered the cloister when St Albans was perhaps the most powerful monastery in England, to give us an insight into the medieval worldview, and to introduce the impressive and creative sciences of the Middle Ages.
February 9, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Frank Iddiols will explain how the National Tidal Observatory of the Ordnance Survey (OS) established the National Datum used since 1921 before considering the various uses and types of OS mapping relating to St Albans since then.
February 16, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Philippa Parker and Janet Capstick highlight the range of early industries in Letchworth Garden City and explain how the principal aim of the Garden City was to attract industry and provide a much better living environment for its workers than the often, miserable conditions in the great industrial cities.
February 18, 2021
2:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Zoom
In this seminar, Sandy Norman will share some of the more colourful and fascinating facts which have been uncovered through the Sopwell Project, which aimed to encourage past and present residents to share their memories.
March 16, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Dr Wendy Morrison
April 20, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speakers: Prof Margot Finn, Sarah Lloyd, and Rebecca Sullivan
May 4, 2021
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Morris
