June 3, 2024
9:45 AM - 4:00 PM
This outing to Hitchin includes guided visits to St Mary's church and the town itself and is open to members and non-members alike.
April 24, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
SAHAAS Library, Sandridge Gate Business Centre, Ronsons Way, off St Albans Road, St Albans, AL4 9XR
The Society's Library will be open to welcome old members, new members and non-members. We will be offering light refreshments, the opportunity to buy second-hand and new books, a display on the theme, "Cows, clocks and coffee: shopping in St Albans" and, most important, a chance to meet the Library team and find out what we can do for you.
May 14, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
St Saviour's Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans
Professor Geraint John will discuss the arts and crafts movement of the latter part of the nineteenth century, which advocated a return to a simpler, more fulfilling society. This involved architecture, the decorative arts and the importance of beauty and craftsmanship, instead of mass production. The talk will take place in St Saviour's Church only.
May 7, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
Martin Holmes, a leading Oxford University academic, re-examines the reputation of Harold Macmillan, who despite the image he projected of a kindly uncle, was a strategic innovator, overseeing a stunning electoral victory in 1959, accelerating the process of decolonisation in Africa, and applying for UK membership of the EEC in 1961.
April 23, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church
Drawing on fresh research, Frank Iddiols and Jon Mein return to the topic of the canal to St Albans that was never built, and consider why this was so, who was for and who was against the expensive proposals, and the planned route of both the canal and the replacement railway service.
May 21, 2024
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
It is now generally accepted that the Bayeux Tapestry was produced in England, probably on Canterbury, and dates from the first decades after 1066. John Morewood, President of the St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society, looks at some other fascinating aspects. How was it manufactured? Where are the embroidery errors? What restorations were made and how have these distorted our understanding of the story it portrays?