April 9, 2023
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
The Clock Tower, St Albans
Come and celebrate Easter Sunday, 9 April 2023, with an Easter Egg Hunt in the Tower, for a chance to win a bag of chocolate coins.
March 29, 2023
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Society's Library
Come and visit the Society’s Library, meet the Library team, browse a book sale and see a selection of maps, pictures and more from our collections with a focus on Fishpool Street.
June 2, 2023
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
St Albans School, Abbey Mill Lane, St Albans, AL3 4HB
Historian Professor Michael Wood, familiar from his many books and TV programmes, will be giving a public lecture open to Society members and non-members alike. Full details will follow in due course.
March 30, 2023 - June 25, 2023
St Albans Museum + Gallery
This spring SAHAAS and St Albans Museums bring you the first exhibition on the largely forgotten second War of the Roses battle. Fought in St Albans over 500 years ago on 17 February 1461, it was one of the largest battles in the conflict. Although a resounding victory for the Lancastrians, the result was eclipsed by a subsequent battle won by the Yorkists.
April 18, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Zoom
Elizabeth Eastwood introduces us to two formidable local female campaigners. Lady Constance Lytton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lytton, was a leading member of the suffragettes. But many women were opposed to the suffrage movement. One such was the novelist Mary Ward who wrote under the name of Mrs Humphrey Ward. Mary came to live at Stocks House, Aldbury and was involved with the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League.
May 23, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
Disgruntled scribes, protective owners, artists interrupted – in this lecture, Mary Wellesley will trace the stories of the people who made, loved and sometimes destroyed mediaeval manuscripts, which are some of the most engaging artefacts ever made by human hands.
May 16, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church
Jim Callaghan is widely regarded as a thoroughly decent man but a less than successful prime minister, 1976-79. Dr Martin Holmes, author of several books, revisits Callaghan's reputation, and looks at his relative successes as well as his blunders.
May 9, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Zoom
As part of a larger programme of events provided by the Barnet Medieval Festival, St Albans Museum + Gallery, and the Battlefields Trust, Dr Peter Burley will give a narrative account of the battle, and recommends that you first visit the associated exhibition in St Albans old town hall.
April 25, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Zoom only
Douglas Kent, Technical & Research Director at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, will talk about the Society's work, and about the work he has carried out on his own Grade I listed building in Saffron Walden.
April 11, 2023
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Marlborough Road Methodist Church and on Zoom
Naval conflict in any age consists of battles and blockade, but also in the defence of trade against enemy raiders. Dr Roger Knight explores Britain's war against Napoleonic France, 1803-1815, which involved thousands of merchant ships importing raw materials and hundreds of warships as escorts.
