Date | Lecturer | Topic |
2001 |
Tue 11 Sep 2001 | Peter Houldcroft | The Royston Cave and the Knights Templar |
Tue 18 Sep 2001 | John & Jo Brewster | Southwark, following the Society’s visit |
Fri 28 Sep 2001 | Dr Brenda Bolton | Palmerius of Picciati returns from the wars |
Tue 2 Oct 2001 | Peter Smith | The Ver past and present |
Tue 9 Oct 2001 | Dr Russell Craig | Buildings in Trust; with special reference to Herts |
Tue 16 Oct 2001 | Dr Alan Thompson | Maurice Thompson – a Herts Jacobean yuppie |
Fri 26 Oct 2001 | Dr Diana Webb | St Thomas Becket in Europe |
Tue 30 Oct 2001 | Derek Morris | 18th century Stepney |
Tue 6 Nov 2001 | David Thorold | Roman coins |
Tue 13 Nov 2001 | Polly Bishop | Hatfield House and the Tradescant connection |
Tue 20 Nov 2001 | Frank Kilvington | 19th century St Albans |
Fri 30 Nov 2001 | Dr John Creighton | Romans in Iron Age Britain |
Tue 4 Dec 2001 | Dr Jim Lewis | Development of Industry in the Lea Valley |
2002 |
Tue 8 Jan 2002 | Dr Gillian Gear | Discovering a Tudor farmhouse in Herts |
Tue 15 Jan 2002 | Anne-Marie Parker | Hidden Hertfordshire |
Fri 25 Jan 2002 | Prof. Simon Keynes | Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture |
Tue 29 Jan 2002 | Ann Dean, Betty Ewens, Rob Weston | A Victorian Montage |
Tue 5 Feb 2002 | John Higgs | The Cuffley Airship |
Tue 12 Feb 2002 | Stuart Whitefoot | Heraldry in the stained glass of St Albans Abbey |
Fri 22 Feb 2002 | Dr Diana Webb | Solitude and Privacy in the Middle Ages |
Tue 26 Feb 2002 | Claire Thornton | The Archaeology of Animals |
Tue 5 Mar 2002 | David Stevens | Work and History of the Box Moor Trust |
Tue 12 Mar 2002 | Rob Weston | Sir Mortimer Wheeler |
Tue 19 Mar 2002 | John Cotton | London before Londinium |
Fri 22 Mar 2002 | —– | Medieval Social Welfare |
Tue 16 Apr 2002 | Rev Anders Berquist | St Albans Abbey before the Normans |
Fri 26 Apr 2002 | Dr Ulrike Schaeffer | The Niebelungen Sagas |
Tue 30 Apr 2002 | Simon West | Local Excavations 2000-01 |
Tue 14 May 2002 | Valerie Edwards | Chenies – its history and gardens |
Tue 31 May 2002 | Dr Gillian Gear | Certified Industrial Schools in the 19th century |
Tue 10 Sep 2002 | Grp. Capt. Peter Garth | Cardington and its Airships |
Tue 17 Sep 2002 | Michael West | Slipping the Gilbert Collection into Somerset House |
Fri 27 Sep 2002 | Michael Hardy | Anglo-Saxon Churches |
Tue 1 Oct 2002 | David Dean | Inns and Ale Houses |
Tue 8 Oct 2002 | Sam Moorshead | Cosmopolitan Roman Britain |
Tue 15 Oct 2002 | Robin Webb | 200 years of Much Hadham Forge |
Fri 25 Oct 2002 | Dr Jonathan Phillips | Richard and Saladin |
Tue 29 Oct 2002 | Bruce Watson | Medieval London Bridge – Lost and Found |
Tue 5 Nov 2002 | Len Groome | London Bridge in America – the story up to date |
Tue 12 Nov 2002 | Reg Nice | History of the Manors of Abbots Langley |
Tue 19 Nov 2002 | Col. J D Sainsbury | The Auxiliary Hospitals in Herts, 1914-18 |
Fri 29 Nov 2002 | Dr Melvin Sabshin | A Short History of Psychiatry |
Tue 3 Dec 2002 | Margaret Wilson | St Albans Road Names |
2003 |
Tue 7 Jan 2003 | —- | The Brickmakers of St Albans |
Tue 14 Jan 2003 | George Crutcher | Beer Brewing in Hertfordshire |
Tue 4 Feb 2003 | John Fadelle | Scammell – an evocative Herts name |
Tue 11 Feb 2003 | Elizabeth Buteux | Children and straw plaiting in Herts |
Tue 18 Feb 2003 | Phil Carter | Conservation in St Albans |
Fri 28 Feb 2003 | Prof. James Walvin | Britain’s role in Slavery |
Tue 4 Mar 2003 | Tony Rook | A History of Hertfordshire |
Tue 11 Mar 2003 | Hugh Lewis | A History of Bushey |
Tue 18 Mar 2003 | Ann Dean | Abbey Parish Street Memorials |
Fri 28 Mar 2003 | Dr Janette Delaine | Ostia |
Tue 1 Apr 2003 | Phil Birtles | De Havilland history |
Fri 25 Apr 2003 | Dr Mark Goldie | Roger Morrice and his “Entring Book” |
Tue 29 Apr 2003 | Jane Kelsall | The British Parish Church |
Tue 13 May 2003 | Betty Masters | St Albans and the 1553 Charter |
Tue 20 May 2003 | Richard Lavender | A History of Hertfordshire Bridges |
Fri 30 May 2003 | David Hopkins | Art, Industry and Coalbrookdale |
Tue 9 Sep 2003 | Ken Cox | Shuttleworth Aviation History |
Tue 16 Sep 2003 | Mary Hanson | Thomas Claughton – 1st Bishop of St Albans |
Fri 26 Sep 2003 | Archdeacon Clifford Offer | Hitchin, Mercia and the Councils of Clofesho |
Tue 30 Sep 2003 | Charles le Quegne | Rediscovering an Ancient Landscape at the Grove, Watford |
Tue 7 Oct 2003 | Rob Masefield | Discoveries on the A41 at Aston Clinton – from Late Iron Age to Saxon |
Tue 14 Oct 2003 | David Keen | The RAF Museum and some links with Hertfordshire |
Tue 21 Oct 2003 | John Neal | St Albans – a Pint and a Prayer |
Fri 31 Oct 2003 | Joan Perkins | The Merry Duchess of St Albans |
Tue 4 Nov 2003 | Robin Perkins | The Cecil Family and Hatfield House |
Tue 11 Nov 2003 | Dr J D Hill | Why Verulamium? Hertfordshire in the Late Iron Age |
Sat 15 Nov 2003 | Dr Stephen Alford | Public Lecture: 1553 – A Year that Shaped a Century |
Tue 18 Nov 2003 | Bruce Watson | Roman London Civic Water Supply |
Fri 28 Nov 2003 | Allen Eyles | Picture Palaces |
Tue 2 Dec 2003 | John Dick | The Mossman Vehicle Collection at Stockwood Park, Luton |
2004 |
Tue 13 Jan 2004 | Robert Lancaster | Spirella – the Age of Constriction |
Tue 20 Jan 2004 | Jane Kelsall | Baptism and Fonts in Great Britain |
Fri 30 Jan 2004 | George Atkinson | Palladio and his influences on English Architecture |
Tue 3 Feb 2004 | Rosemary Stevens | Calligraphy |
Tue 10 Feb 2004 | John Higgs | My view from the Towpath – from Bow to Hertford |
Tue 17 Feb 2004 | John Glanville | Antique English Clocks |
Fri 27 Feb 2004 | John Brodrick | The Dark Ages |
Tue 2 Mar 2004 | Chris Reynolds | Poaching and Petty Thieving in St Albans |
Tue 9 Mar 2004 | Peter Evans | The Bones of St Alban |
Tue 16 Mar 2004 | Clive Walter | Abbey Wall Paintings |
Fri 26 Mar 2004 | C Stell | Nonconformist Chapels |
Tue 30 Mar 2004 | Aubrey Roberts | The Independent Chapel of St Albans – 300 Years of History |
Tue 6 Apr 2004 | Robin Webb | Thatching |
Tue 20 Apr 2004 | Brian Limbrick | The British School – bringing Literacy to the Industrial Revolution |
Fri 30 Apr 2004 | Dr Paul Roberts | Rome – Art and Emperors |
Tue 11 May 2004 | Chris Green, Director of St Albans Museums | A Tudor Axle-treed Cart found in St Albans |
Tue 18 May 2004 | Peter Adams | Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills |
Fri 28 May 2004 | Vivienne Smith | Blazing Trails Down Under |
Fri 16 July 2004 | Prof. John Gillingham | Public Lecture: The World of Richard the Lionheart |
Tue 7 Sept 2004 | Dr Stuart Bryant | Landscape and Ritual – The Late Iron Age of Hertfordshire |
Tue 14 Sept 2004 | John Wood | Development Pressures in Hertfordshire |
Fri 24 Sept 2004 | Adrian Gibson | Kingsbury Barn and related buildings |
Tue 28 Sept 2004 | Anthony Spence | The Iron Age Chariot -recent discoveries and interpretations |
Tue 5 Oct 2004 | Gene Mitchell | St Albans – water, rail and Victorian Gothic |
Tue 12 Oct 2004 | Ann Dean | Mr Telford’s by-pass – the making of Verulam Road |
Tue 19 Oct 2004 | John Fisher | The Mary Rose |
Fri 29 Oct 2004 | Prof. John Morrill | Cromwell – warts and all |
Tue 2 Nov 2004 | Steven Potter | Tiles in the Abbey |
Tue 9 Nov 2004 | Peter Street | Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition |
Tue 16 Nov 2004 | Derek Peters | History of London – Part I |
Fri 26 Nov 2004 | John Credland | The History of Popular Photography |
Tue 30 Nov 2004 | Rob Masefield | Archaeological Finds in Colchester |
Tue 7 Dec 2004 | David Dean | St Albans Historic Landscape |
2005 |
Tue 18 Jan 2005 | Tony Billings Rob Weston | Thomas Fowler – A St Albans Worthy Grimthorpe – A St Albans Giant |
Fri 28 Jan 2005 | Prof. Nigel Goose | Child Employment in 19c Hertfordshire in Perspective – Varieties of Childhood |
Tue 1 Feb 2005 | Simon West | Cremation Burials at Turners Hall Farm, Wheathamstead |
Tue 8 Feb 2005 | Teresa Wild | Lord Rothschild & the Tring Museum |
Tue 15 Feb 2005 | Jeremy Ingham | Investigation of historic lime-based building materials |
Fri 25 Feb 2005 | John Brodrick | Ancient Technology |
Tue 1 Mar 2005 | Elizabeth Buteux | The Lost Inns of the High Street |
Tue 8 Mar 2005 | Richard Abdey | Labelled Heads – Portraits on coins and medals |
Fri 18 Mar 2005 | Prof. John Baker | Britons in Post-Roman Hertfordshire – the place name evidence |
Tue 22 Mar 2005 | Kate Morris & the Property History Group | How St Albans Has Changed and Developed – who did what, where |
Tue 5 Apr 2005 | Alan Featherstone | History of Redbourn |
Tue 19 Apr 2005 | John Brodrick | Our Evolving View of the Romans |
Fri 29 Apr 2005 | Dr Clive Foxall | The Strange Story of the Metropolitan Railway |
Tue 10 May 2005 | Simon West | Verlamio – Verulamium |
Tue 17 May 2005 | Richard Hobbs | Our Past Treasure – Finds from England and Wales |
Fri 27 May 2005 | Kate Harwood | Indian Influences on 18c English Gardens |
Tue 6 Sept 2005 | Peter Collins | The Organ Builder of Redbourn |
Tue 13 Sept 2005 | T C Stevens | The Keeper of Berkhamsted Castle |
Tue 20 Sept 2005 | Bruce Watson | Excavations at the Roman Port of London |
Fri 30 Sept 2005 | Prof. Andrew Lambert | Nelson – Death and Transfiguration |
Tue 4 Oct 2005 | Tony Woodhouse | Illustrated History of Dunstable and its Priory |
Tue 11 Oct 2005 | Michael West | Conversion of the Earl of Clarendon’s Mansion at Chandler’s Cross |
Tue 18 Oct 2005 | Chris Reynolds | The Army in St Albans in WWI |
Fri 28 Oct 2005 | David Harrison | Bridges of Medieval England |
Tue 1 Nov 2005 | Gene Mitchell | Slum Life in 19th century King’s Cross |
Tue 8 Nov 2005 | Hugh Lewis | Sir Hubert Herkomer – Bushey’s Victorian Painter |
Tue 15 Nov 2005 | Kevin Fitzgerald | The Protection of Rural England |
Fri 25 Nov 2005 | Dr John Schofield | London and the Gunpowder Plot |
Tue 29 Nov 2005 | John Cox | “Jim Forrester” – a.k.a. 5th Earl of Verulam |
Tue 6 Dec 2005 | Jane Kelsall | Gothic Revival – it started much earlier than you think. |
2006 |
Tue 17 Jan 2006 | Isobel Leek | Victorian Garden History |
Fri 27 Jan 2006 | Paul Chamberlain | Prisoners of War in Britain, 1793-1815 |
Tue 31 Jan 2006 | Robin Webb | A Silk Purse from a Pig’s Nose |
Tue 7 Feb 2006 | Ann Dean | 2000 Years of St Michael’s Street |
Tue 14 Feb 2006 | Deryck Hannaford | The Carillon at the Abbey |
Fri 24 Feb 2006 | Dr Susan Mary Grant | New Light on the Lady With the Lamp |
Tue 28 Feb 2006 | Dr J D Hill | In Search of the Druids – The Realities of Religion in Iron Age Britain |
Tue 7 Mar 2006 | John Wooley | The Great Train Robbery |
Fri 24 Mar 2006 | Alan Frost | Restoration of Windsor Castle – After the Fire |
Tue 28 Mar 2006 | Revd Peter Wadsworth | Rule and Reality – Life in a Great Medieval Abbey |
Tue 4 April 2006 | David Dean | St Albans Historical Landscape post AD1250 |
Tue 11 April 2006 | George Atkinson | St Pancras Station – Midland Link, Thames Link, Euro Link |
Fri 28 April 2006 | William Palin | Inexhaustible Fancy and Solid Judgement – The Life and Works of Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) |
Tue 9 May 2006 | Alex Thompson | Romans in the Bulbourne Valley |
Tue 16 May 2006 | David Thorold | 2000 Years of Coinage |
Fri 26 May 2006 | Anne Rowe | Lost Gardens of Hertfordshire |
Tue 5 Sept 2006 | John Ely, Shenley Park Trust | New (Herts) parks with historical links |
Tue 12 Sept 2006 | Elizabeth Eastwood, City Guide | An illustrated walk round Wheathampstead |
Tue 19 Sept 2006 | Donato Cinicolo | Hedges in St Albans and the craft of hedgelaying |
Fri 29 Sept 2006 | Barrie Trinder | The Industrial Archaeology of World War II |
Tue 3 Oct 2006 | Jennie Sherwood, Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society | Berkhamsted through the ages |
Tue 10 Oct 2006 | Justin James | Redbournbury watermill – past, present & future |
Tue 17 Oct 2006 | Prof. Burland DSc CBE | Propping up Pisa |
Fri 27 Oct 2006 | Alison Dickens, Cambridge University Archaeological Unit | Archaeological excavations on the old Robert Sayle site, Cambridge |
Tue 31 Oct 2006 | Duane Parkin | The Tabard – restoration of a 14th century building |
Tue 7 Nov 2006 | R A M Harvey | Bribery & corruption (St Albans included) – the unreformed electoral system |
Tue 14 Nov 2006 | Jean Peyton, Cathedral Guide | Paul of Caen |
Fri 24 Nov 2006 | Jill Barber, County Local Studies Librarian at HALS | Treasures of the Archives |
Tue 28 Nov 2006 | Heather Falvey, Hertfordshire Record Society | The More – Cardinal Wolsey’s palace at Rickmansworth |
Tue 5 Dec 2006 | Irene Cowan | The 17th Century Population Research Group |
2007 |
Tue 16 Jan 2007 | Nicholas Maddex, Codicote Local History Society | Tales & Legends of Mid-Hertfordshire |
Fri 26 Jan 2007 | Kate Morris | Trade and transport on English waterways |
Tue 30 Jan 2007 | Rev Peter Wadsworth | St Albans and the Peasants’ Revolt |
Tue 6 Feb 2007 | Peter Hurford OBE | Music in St Albans Abbey, 1958-78 – a personal view |
Tue 13 Feb 2007 | Brian and Kathleen Moody | From melons to rugger balls – the history of Holywell House grounds |
Fri 23 Feb 2007 | Gareth Harris | The Story of Spitalfields |
Tue 27 Feb 2007 | Janet Miles | Archaeology – a digger’s eye view |
Tue 6 Mar 2007 | Sam Mullins, Director, London’s Transport Museum and onetime Director, St A Museums | From Dickens to the District Line – passengers’ experience of bus and tube in Victorian and Edwardian London |
Tue 20 Mar 2007 | Miss M Wilson | Local monumental brasses |
Fri 30 Mar 2007 | Sue Shave | Chiltern Open Air Museum – A Vision for the Future |
Tue 3 Apr 2007 | Michael Rose, Abbey Guide | The painted ceilings of St Albans Abbey |
Tue 17 Apr 2007 | Norman Oldknow, Gene Peyton-Jones and Nancy Page | Revising the Cathedral inventory. |
Fri 27 Apr 2007 | Georgia Butters | Pumps, pigs and people – the realities of opening archaeology to the public |
Tue 8 May 2007 | Ann Dean | Let’s keep it in the family – the Rowlatts and the Bacons |
Fri 25 May 2007 | Peter Street | The Great Fire of London |
Tue 4 Sep 2007 | Robert Lancaster | The Pioneer Years – Origins and Early Years of Letchworth Garden City |
Tue 11 Sep 2007 | John Cox | “Fatty” Cavan – a Hertfordshire Field-Marshal |
Tue 18 Sep 2007 | Gill Cordingley | The Story of St Leonard’s Church – Hertford’s Oldest Building |
Tue 25 Sept 2007 | Chris Green, Director of St Albans Museums | Useful and beautiful – understanding trade tools from 1500 to the present |
Fri 28 Sep 2007 | Dr Anne Stott | The Life of William Wilberforce |
Tue 2 Oct 2007 | Jenny Stroud | Thirteen Months as St Albans Mayor |
Tue 9 Oct 2007 | Jill Singer | Uncovering Kingsbury Manor |
Tue 16 Oct 2007 | Barbara Chapman | The Forgotten Historic Landscape of the Leverstock Green Area |
Fri 26 Oct 2007 | Dorian Gerhold, Trade and Industry Committee, House of Commons | Goods and passenger transport by road before and after the turnpikes – concentrating on road services before turnpiking had a major impact (c.1750/60). |
Tue 30 Oct 2007 | Jane Kelsall | Dissolution of the Monasteries – what happened at St Albans? |
Tue 6 Nov 2007 | Clare Ellis | Hertfordshire – home of the pharmaceutical industry |
Tue 13 Nov 2007 | Dr Jill Barber | Hertfordshire’s Links with the Slave Trade and its Abolition |
Tue 20 Nov 2007 | David Short | Mapping the Past – the Hertfordshire Historical Atlas |
Fri 30 Nov 2007 | Dr Rosamund Bartlett, University of Oxford | The Edge of Empires – the Story of the Balkans. The history of the Slav countries in South-East Europe. |
Tue 4 Dec 2007 | Dr Howlett | From Coal Mine to Comet – Reminiscences of Hatfield |
Tue 11 Dec 2007 | Betty Ewens Gerard McSweeney | Sander – St Albans Orchid King The Redoubtable Duchess and Her Almshouses |
2008 |
Tue 15 Jan 2008 | Robert Bard | Elstree – Britain’s Hollywood |
Fri 25 Jan 2008 | David Dean | Votes for Sovereigns – Parliamentary elections were once very robust affairs and St Albans was well to the fore in bribery. |
Tue 29 Jan 2008 | Dr Richard Simons | A Butcher’s Daybook – Abbots Langley in 1828 |
Tue 5 Feb 2008 | Dr Bill Martin | Geophysical Surveys Around Hertfordshire |
Tue 12 Feb 2008 | Jacky Bennett | Apsley Mill and the History of Paper-making |
Tue 19 Feb 2008 | Caroline Rawle | The Story of Welwyn Garden City |
Fri 29 Feb 2008 | Kate Colquhoun | A Thing in Disguise – the Life of Joseph Paxton, Head Gardener at Chatsworth and designer of the Crystal Palace. |
Tue 4 Mar 2008 | Dr Ralph Jackson | Roman Medicine |
Tue 11 Mar 2008 | Brian Adams | Ways to Annoy the Enemy – St. Albans and the Napoleonic War |
Tue 18 Mar 2008 | The Library Staff | The Arc and Arc Library |
Fri 28 Mar 2008 | George Ireland | From Family Gold to Family Gout – a Rothschild Inheritance. |
Tue 1 Apr 2008 | Victor Ludlow | Flags, Feathers and Further Communication Methods |
Tue 8 Apr 2008 | Rev Peter Wadsworth | St Albans and The Peasants’ Revolt |
Tue 15 Apr 2008 | Dr Alan McWhirr | St Albans Fire Service – a History |
Fri 25 Apr 2008 | Dr Tom Williamson | How Old is the Landscape? What field boundaries can show us about the extent of open fields in medieval Hertfordshire. |
Tue 29 Apr 2008 | Vicky Rawlings | The 150 Cottage – Letchworth G.C. and the 1905 Cheap Cottage Exhibition |
Tue 6 May 2008 | Elaine Beckett, London Guide | Heart of Empire – The Story of a London Street Corner |
Tue 20 May 2008 | Peter Lawrence | Beneath City Streets – London’s Hidden history |
Fri 30 May 2008 | Harvey Watson | The First Battle of St Albans, 1455 – the start of the Wars of the Roses. |
Tue 9 Sep 2008 | R S Craske | Redbourn – a Hertfordshire Village through the Ages |
Tue 16 Sept 2008 | Alison Turner-Rugg | Pottage & Porpoises – Medieval Food and Cooking in St Albans |
Fri 26 Sep 2008 | Prof. Michael Cooper | Five millennia of measuring and mapping the land |
Tue 7 Oct 2008 | Dr Kate Thompson | Housing the Deserving Poor in Hertfordshire – Almshouses and their Inmates |
Tue 21 Oct 2008 | Kate Bretherton | St Albans’ Tree Heritage |
Fri 31 Oct 2008 | Dr Mary Harlow | Childhood in the Roman Empire |
Tue 11 Nov 2008 | David Short | History of Ashwell |
Tue 18 Nov 2008 | Paul Chamberlain | The Prisoners of Norman Cross Change of programme |
Fri 28 Nov 2008 | Dr Linda Porter | Contrary Mary – Mary Tudor |
Tue 9 Dec | Ken Peak | Listed Buildings of London Colney |
2009 |
Tue 13 Jan 2009 | Prof. Vivian Nutton | The Black Death Revisited – New Problems & Old Solutions |
Tue 20 Jan 2009 | Dr Jonathan Hunn | The Gorhambury Landscape |
Fri 30 Jan 2009 | Dr Isobel Thompson | The work of the Historic Environment Record – Archaeology of St Albans |
Tue 10 Feb 2009 | Ann Dean | The Church of St Michael – a Hidden Treasure |
Tue 17 Feb 2009 | Tudy Hill | Women of the Pre – From Leper Hospital to Convent |
Fri 27 Feb 2009 | Judy Faraday | Partnership in the Past – John Lewis |
Tue 10 Mar 2009 | Christine Aitken | Childwickbury – a Short History |
Tue 17 Mar 2009 | Keith Cheyney & Margaret Taylor | Serve and Obey – a History of Haberdashers’ Aske’s School |
Fri 27 Mar 2009 | Michael Leapman | Inigo Jones and the Hatfield Connection |
Tue 7 Apr 2009 | David Pearce | Hertfordshire You May Have Missed |
Fri 24 Apr 2009 | Prof. Tim Hitchcock | Researching History Using the Old Bailey Online, 1674–1913 |
Tue 12 May 2009 | Richard Boustred | The Palace at Kings Langley – History & Archaeology Cancelled |
Tue 19 May 2009 | Joan Curran | Totternhoe Stone – the Quarries, the Masons and the Buildings |
Fri 29 May 2009 | Lee Prosser | The Restoration of Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte’s Cottage |
Tue 8 Sep 2009 | The Society AGM followed by: Brian Adams | Fleetville – the History of a Community in St Albans |
Tue 15 Sept 2009 | Michael Stanyon | Sir John Evans KCB, FRS – an Extraordinary Local Gentleman |
Fri 25 Sept 2009 | Dr Catherine Hills | Revisiting Spong Hill – an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Norfolk |
Tue 13 Oct 2009 | Gillian Harvey | Lord Grimthorpe and other Dragons – the career of Walter Lawrance |
Tue 20 Oct 2009 | Richard Boustred | The Royal Palace of Kings Langley |
Fri 30 Oct 2009 | Prof Michael Cooper | For my name and memory – or why St Albans should make more of Francis Bacon |
Tue 10 Nov 2009 | Sam Whitbread | Plain Mr Whitbread |
Tue 17 Nov 2009 | Dave Scott & Ian Simmons | Wycombe’s Contribution to Aviation |
Fri 27 Nov 2009 | Suzannah Lipscomb | What happened to Henry VIII? |
Tue 8 Dec 2009 | Runnals Davis | Canal Architecture |
2010 |
Fri 8 Jan 2010 | New Year Party | at Verulamium Museum Cancelled |
Tue 12 Jan 2010 | Tom Wareham | Commerce and conflict – the early development of London’s docks Cancelled |
Tue 19 Jan 2010 | John Cox | St. Albans and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Fri 29 Jan 2010 | Dr Peter Burley | The Second Battle of St Albans, 17 February 1461 |
Tue 9 Feb 2010 | Pat Howe & Pat Nellist | Social Welfare in St Peter’s Parish, St Albans, 1663–1680 |
Tue 16 Feb 2010 | Bob Dearden | A brief walk through the history of Shenley |
Fri 26 Feb 2010 | Hugh Davies | Enigma – how breaking the German ciphers in WWII led to the world’s first computer |
Tue 9 Mar 2010 | Peter Lawrence | The Villages of East London |
Tue 16 Mar 2010 | Irene Cowan | Bogislaus Rosen (1572–1658) – a 17th century Estonian Merchant |
Fri 26 Mar 2010 | Catharine Arnold | Bedlam – London and its Mad |
Tue 13 Apr 2010 | Zena Dickinson | Luton Hoo – past, present and future |
Tue 20 Apr 2010 | Ann Dean | Law and Disorder in St Albans 1750–1900 |
Fri 30 Apr 2010 | Dr Mark Freeman | Pageantry, history and identity – St Albans in the twentieth century |
Tue 11 May 2010 | Jenny Sherwood | Berkhamsted trades and industries through the ages |
Tue 18 May 2010 | Peter Huggins | The five churches at Waltham Abbey and the development of the town |
Fri 28 May 2010 | Andrew Rudolf | The fair majestic Paradise of Stowe (Pope) – Stowe House and Landscape Gardens |
Tue 7 Sept 2010 | Annual General Meeting Jon Mein | 7.30 pm at Verulamium Museum Pint Pot versus Coffee Pot: temperance in late-Victorian St Albans |
Tue 14 Sept 2010 | Tom Wareham | Commerce and Conflict: the early development of London’s docks |
Fri 24 Sept 2010 | Dr Andrew Gardner | The End of Roman Britain: what ended, when and why? |
Tue 5 Oct 2010 | Stephen Humphrey | The Old Kent Road |
Tue 12 Oct 2010 | Andy Chapman | History of Lemsford |
Tue 19 Oct 2010 | Stephen Barnard | The BBC in Wartime |
Fri 29 Oct 2010 | Dr Nick Barratt | Lost Voices from the Titanic: bringing the past to life |
Tue 9 Nov 2010 | Leo Hollis | The Phoenix: the men who made modern London |
Tue 16 Nov 2010 | John Bethell | Domestic Architecture in St Albans, c 1800 |
Fri 26 Nov 2010 | Kate Morris | St Peter’s in the Borough: a long view of its natural, built and cultural environment A change from the original programme. |
Tue 7 Dec 2010 | Alan Willmott | An Evening of Old Films |
2011 |
Fri 7 Jan 2011 | New Year Party | at Verulamium Museum |
Tue 11 Jan 2011 | Eric Edwards | Flamstead: a brief history |
Tue 18 Jan 2011 | Mark Pardoe | The Inns and Outs of Pub Names |
Fri 28 Jan 2011 | Ann Dean | The Life and Death of St Albans’ Inns |
Tue 8 Feb 2011 | Peter Lawrence | Villages of East London – Part II |
Tue 15 Feb 2011 | Tony Crosby | Industry in the Market Towns of East Hertfordshire |
Fri 25 Feb 2011 | David Fellows | This Old House: excavations at Chiswick House |
Tue 8 Mar 2011 | Steven Davidson | The Clocks in the Royal Collection This is a change from the original programme. |
Tue 15 Mar 2011 | Ann Ledger | A City at War: the Home Front |
Fri 25 Mar 2011 | Steven Frank | The Holocaust: a child’s experience |
Tue 5 Apr 2011 | Bob Finch | Historical Snippets of Kimpton |
Tue 12 April 2011 | Robin Webb | Cromer: last of Hertfordshire’s windmills |
Tue 10 May 2011 | Rev Peter Wadsworth | The Day Before Their World Ended: newspapers from just before the First World War |
Tue 17 May 2011 | Colin Bell | Christ’s Hospital 1552–2011 |
Fri 27 May 2011 | Peter Dalton | Ten Minutes to Noon: a history of Copped Hall Copped Hall organises practical courses in field archaeology |
Tues 6 Sept 2011 | AGM Chris Green | 7.30 pm at Verulamium Museum Clock House to Clock Tower |
Tues 13 Sept 2011 | Jane Kelsall | Public Statements and Private Lives – British Church Monuments through the Ages |
Tues 20 Sept 2011 | Robin Densem | Roman London |
Fri 30 Sept 2011 | Gillian Tindall | The Fields Beneath – the history of one London Village |
Tues 11 Oct 2011 | Chris Wolmar | Engines of War – the influence of railways on warfare. |
Tues 18 Oct 2011 | Gill Harvey | Monastic Life in 13th century St Albans – another look at Matthew Paris |
Fri 28 Oct 2011 | Dr Adrian Tinniswood | The Verneys – a true story of love, war and madness in 17th century England |
Tues 8 Nov 2011 | Dr Tim Benson | The Cartoon Century – Modern Britain through the eyes of its cartoonists To be repeated on 13 March, 2012 |
Tues 15 Nov 2011 | Kate Morris | St Albans’ European links and its Twin Towns |
Fri 25 Nov 2011 | Barbara Askew | Queen Victoria – an affectionate portrait |
Tues 6 Dec 2011 | Kevin Varty | Pictures in the Parlour – the story of the Magic Lantern |
2012 |
Tues 10 Jan 2012 | Dr Tony Crilly | St Albans Down Under – an early settlement in New South Wales |
Fri 13 Jan 2012 | New Year Party | 7.30pm at Verulamium Museum |
Fri 27 Jan 2012 | Donald Munro | Printing and Publishing in St Albans before 1900 – an Historical Excursion |
Tues 7 Feb 2012 | Roderick Douglas | An Engineer at War – The Falklands 1982 |
Tues 14 Feb 2012 | John and Jo Brewster | Sir Christopher Wren |
Fri 24 Feb 2012 | Alastair Lansley CBE | St Pancras – Europe’s Destination Station |
Tues 6 Mar 2012 | Stephen Barnard | Banging the Gong for Britain – J Arthur Rank and Wartime Cinema |
Tues 13 Mar 2012 | Jon Mein | The The Rise and Fall of the Public House in Victorian St Albans. |
Tues 20 Mar 2012 | Stuart Whitefoot | Royal Heraldry in St Albans Abbey |
Fri 30 Mar 2012 | Richard Loren | The Restoration of Alexandra Palace after the 1980 fire |
Tues 17 Apr 2012 | Roger Miles | Kingsbury Barn |
Fri 27 Apr 2012 | Dr Mark Freeman | The story of Adult Education – Hertfordshire in context 1918–1939 |
Tues 8 May 2012 | Mollie Kennedy | Eleanor of Castile – She of the Crosses |
Tues 15 May 2012 | Claire Masset | Department Stores. Cancelled because the speaker was unwell. |
Fri 25 May 2012 | Kate Morris | Who benefits from education? A view over time on attitudes and provision and how that was expressed in St Albans. |
Tue 4 Sept 2012 | AGM David Saxby | At Verulamium Museum Jacob’s Island / Snowhill Holborn |
Tue 18 Sept 2012 | Leo Hollis | The Stones of London. postponed from January |
Fri 28 Sept 2012 | Professor Clyde Binfield | Pugin – Man of Contrasts, Gothic Genius and Revolutionary |
Tue 9 Oct 2012 | Gene Mitchell | Slum Life in 19th Century Kings Cross (Agar Town and Somerstown) – Life on the Wrong Side of the Tracks |
Tue 16 Oct 2012 | Eileen Wallace | Children of the Labouring Poor |
Fri 26 Oct 2012 | Dr Matthew Symonds | Titanic – Archaeology of an Emigrant Ship |
Tue 6 Nov 2012 | Derek Morris | Whitechapel in the 18th Century |
Tue 13 Nov 2012 | Sue Flood | The Delme Redcliffe’s of Hitchin Priory |
Tue 20 Nov 2012 | Dave Musgrave | A History of Britain in 20 Places |
Fri 30 Nov 2012 | Dr J D Davies | Samuel Pepys – Man and Myth |
Tue 4 Dec 2012 | Ann Dean | The Life and Work of John Henry Buckingham – 19th Century St Albans Artist |
2013 |
Fri 11 Jan 2013 | New Year Party | At Verulamium Museum |
Tue 15 Jan 2013 | Chris Green | Number One Market Place, St Albans. Life and work next door to the Clock Tower from 1550 |
Fri 25 Jan 2013 | Rev Iain Lane | Gaudi – Inhabited sculpture |
Tue 5 Feb | Mike Rendell | The everyday life of a London Shopkeeper in the 18th Century |
Tue 12 Feb 2013 | Philippa Lewis | An Anatomy of the British House – Looking at Architectural Detail |
Fri 22 Feb 2013 | Dr John Schofield | St Paul’s Cathedral before Wren |
Tue 5 Mar 2013 | Sue Flood | The Grenfells of Panshanger |
Tue 12 Mar 2013 | Taylor Downing | Spies in the Sky |
Fri 22 Mar 2013 | Dr Jan Piggott | Reflections of Empire |
Tue 9 Apr 2013 | Dorothy Abel Smith | The Role of the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust – Past and Present |
Tue 16 Apr 2013 | Peter Ablett | The Boxmoor Trust |
Fri 26 Apr 2013 | Richard Griffiths | St Pancras Hotel – Conservation Cause Celebre |
Tue 7 May 2013 | Stan Ames | Secret Wireless Intelligence in WW2 |
Tue 14 May 2013 | Chris Green Jon Mein & Frank Iddiols | The Clock Tower Photograph Addition to the published programme: The Story of the St Albans Canal |
Tue 21 May 2013 | Louise Raw | Striking a Light – The truth about the Bryant & May Matchwomen’s Strike, 1888 |
Fri 31 May 2013 | Helen Leiper | Mr Lancelot Brown and his Hertfordshire Clients |
Tue 10 Sept 2013 | AGM Prof. Nigel Saul | At Verulamium Museum at 7.30pm Magna Carta, History and Politics |
Tue 17 Sept 2013 | John Loadman | Brickendonbury and its Place in the History of Hertfordshire |
Fri 27 Sept 2013 | Dr Richard Buckley | Greyfriars, Leicester and the search for Richard III |
Tue 8 Oct 2013 | Stan Ames | Wireless interception and the Double Cross Operation |
Tue 15 Oct 2013 | Jane Kelsall | Nineteenth-century Royal monuments at Windsor, and what came afterwards |
Fri 25 Oct 2013 | John Brodrick | F.W. Kinneir Tarte, Man of Two Words |
Tue 5 Nov 2013 | Prof. Tim Connell | Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker – The City Livery Companies |
Tue 12 Nov 2013 | Daphne Knott | Tudor Hertfordshire |
Tue 19 Nov 2013 | Frank Iddiols | Ordnance Survey Bench Marks in and around St Albans |
Fri 29 Nov 2013 | Guy Atkins | The Edwardian Social Network |
Tue 3 Dec 2013 | Laurie Elvin | Cassiobury – A Walk in the Park |
Tue 10 Dec 2013 | Ian Thompson | German U-Boats and the Battle of the Atlantic |
2014 |
Fri 10 Jan 2014 | New Year’s Party at Verulamium Museum | |
Tue 14 Jan 2014 | St Albans in the First World War: Conscription, Conscience & Commerce | Dr Julie Moore & Jon Mein |
Fri 31 Jan 2014 | St Albans Abbey in its Medieval Setting | Brenda Bolton |
Tue 11 Feb 2014 | ‘Widow’s Reads’ – Observations from the Wills of 17th Century St Albans Widows | Pat Howe |
Tue 18 Feb 2014 | The Halseys of Gaddesden, a Hertfordshire family from time out of mind | Nicholas Halsey |
Fri 28 Feb 2014 | Knebworth House and the Lytton family | Claire Fleck |
Tue 11 Mar 2014 | Beech Bottom Dyke | Roger Miles & Mike North |
Tue 18 Mar 2014 | Early Nineteenth Century St Albans – Gentry Town | Kate Morris |
Fri 28 Mar 2014 | Stonehenge – New Discoveries | Professor Mike Parker Pearson |
Tue 8 April | Underground, how the Tube shaped London | Sam Mullins |
Tue 15 April 2014 | Episodes from the History of Ware | David Perman |
Friday 25 April 2014 | Medieval Peasant Houses: Did the Black Death cause a Building Boom? | Prof. Chris Dyer |
Tue 6 May 2014 | The Sugar Girls – Female workers at Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories | Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi |
Tue 13 May 2014 | The Development of Wrotham Park Mansion from 1750 to 2000 | Charles Dace |
Tue 20 May 2014 | The Secret Diary of a Churchgoer | Rev. Peter Wadsworth |
Friday 30 May 2014 | An Early Commercial Architect in Hertfordshire | Christopher Blow |
Tue 16 Sept 2014 | AGM and A New Regional Cultural Heritage Centre of Excellence in St Albans | Chris McIntyre |
Fri 26 Sept 2014 | Dido Belle growing up at Kenwood House | Laura Houliston |
Tue 7 Oct 2014 | The Thames Ironworks – Then and Now | Ben Clayton & Gavin Redknap |
Tue 14 Oct 2014 | St Albans, Hertfordshire & the Civil War | Dr Alan Thomson |
Tue 21 Oct 2014 | A Personal Exploration of the City of Westminster – Past and Present | Catherine Longworth |
Fri 31 Oct 2014 | Those Wild Wyndhams Three Sisters at the Heart of Power | Claudia Renton |
Tue 11 Nov 2014 | London’s Forgotten Children Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital | Dame Gillian Pugh |
Tue 18 Nov 2014 | Fleetville – the game of consequences | Mike Neighbour |
Fri 28 Nov 2014 | Claydon House and the families who lived therein | Frank Preece |
Tue 9 Dec 2014 | From Clapham Junction to Fortress Malta The archaeology, architecture and history of the island of Malta | Bryan Hanlon |
2015 |
Fri 9 Jan 2015 | New Year Party – Verulamium Museum Starting at 7:30pm |
Tue 13 Jan 2015 | Treasures of the Archive At Verulamium Museum | Marion Hill, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies |
Tue 20 Jan 2015 | Life on the Home Front Doing your bit | Maggy Douglas & Patricia Broad |
Fri 30 Jan 2015 | Remembering Robert Hunter Co-founder of the National Trust | Dr Ben Cowell |
Tue 10 Feb 2015 | Entertainment in Georgian England | Mike Rendell |
Tue 17 Feb 2015 | A Touch of Glass | Tony Brown & Gordon Casbeard |
Fri 27 Feb 2015 | Thos Hollis V 18c Republican Eccentric, Benefactor of Harvard University – His family, activities and St Albans connections | Kate Morris |
Tue 10 Mar 2015 | Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Archaeology of Hertfordshire | Dr Kris Lockyear |
Tue 17 Mar 2015 | The History of the Nickey Line | David Abernethy |
Fri 27 Mar 2015 | Discovering an Archive of Local History The Papers of the Nichols Family of printers and Antiquaries 1745 – 1873, with special reference to St Albans and Hertfordshire | Julian Pooley |
Tue 14 Apr 2015 | Secret London | Mike Beech |
Fri 24 Apr 2015 | ‘Magna Carta – its history and what it means to us today’ | Edward Dawson |
Tue 12 May 2015 | Death from above – German Airship raids on Britain 1915 – 1918 | Harvey Watson |
Tue 19 May 2015 | Palladianism – Four Centuries of Style | Charles Hind |
Fri 29 May 2015 | The Road to the New Towns: From Utopian Visionaries to the “Men from the Ministry” | Matthew Bristow |
Tue 15 Sept 2015 | Annual General Meeting followed by The Sandridge Hoard | David Thorold |
Fri 25 Sept 2015 | The Battle of Waterloo 2015 – New Perspectives | John Morewood |
Tue 6 Oct 2015 | Will the Real John Carrington stand up! | Sue Flood |
Tue 13 Oct 2015 | Piers of the Realm | Anthony Wills |
Tue 20 Oct 2015 | Gardens fit for a Queen – The New Gardens of Kensington Palace | Todd Longstaffe-Gowan |
Fri 30 Oct 2015 | Pocket Rome – Chiswick House Lord Burlington & William Kent | Laurence Rich |
Tue 10 Nov 2015 | The German Cruiser – ‘Emden’ – the story of the great World War 1 sea raider | Ian Thompson |
Tue 17 Nov 2015 | Geoffrey de Havilland, Two Old Houses and Freeman’s Folly | Mike Garrick |
Fri 27 Nov 2015 | Those Wild Wyndhams – Three Sisters a! the Heart of Power | Claudia Renton |
Tue 8 Dec 2015 | Horace Warner and his Spitalfield Nippers | The Gentle Author |
2016 |
Fri 8 Jan 2016 | New Year Party – Verulamium Museum | |
Tue 12 Jan 2016 | The High Sheriff’s Role Past and Present | Fergus McMullen |
Tue 19 Jan 2016 | The Secret Wireless War | Stephen Barnard |
Fri 29 Jan 2016 | Cyril Swinson and the 1948/1953 Pageants | Peter Swinson |
Tue 9 Feb 2016 | Metro-Land – The coming of the Underground to Hertfordshire. | Graham Boseley |
Tue 16 Feb 2016 | Nouveaux Riches to Nouveaux Pauvres The Story of the Macalpine-Lenys | Ian Macalpine-Leny |
Fri 26 Feb 2016 | When the British ruled Germany after the end of the Second World War | Dr Christopher Knowles |
Tue 8 Mar 2016 | The ‘Boffins’ of World War 1 | Taylor Downing |
Fri 18 Mar 2016 | Motives of the First Crusades | Prof. Jonathan Phillips |
Tue 5 Apr 2016 | The Gresham Ship – An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman wrecked in the Thames | Gustav Milne |
Tue 12 Apr 2016 | The Rev Small and the missing £20,000 | Jonathan Mein |
Fri 22 Apr 2016 | London’s Lea Valley – Britain’s Best Kept Secret | Dr James Lewis |
Tue 10 May 2016 | Beaumonts – A story of Two Manors | Mike Neighbour |
Fri 20 May 2016 | Pompeii and Herculaneum – Their Life and Death | Dr Paul Roberts |
Date | Lecturer | Topic |
Tue 13 Sept 2016 | AGM | The AGM will be followed by the launch of the Society’s new book, St Albans: Life on the Home Front, 1914-1918 |
Tue 20 Sept 2016 | David Prior | Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November |
Fri 30 Sept 2016 | Kate Harwood | Capabilities of Hertfordshire’s Landscapes |
Tue 11 Oct 2016 | Adam Smith | Building Georgian Towns |
Tue 18 Oct 2016 | Michael Knight | Milestones and Turnpike Roads |
Fri 28 Oct 2016 | Matthew Saunders MBE | Saving Churches – The Work of The Friends of Friendless Churches |
Tue 8 Nov 2016 | Stephen Barnard | Pack up your Troubles- The Story of a Wartime Song |
Tue 15 Nov 2016 | Neil Taylor | The Iron Curtain – The Cold War and After |
Fri 25 Nov 2016 | John Campbell | Pistols at Dawn – Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown |
Tue 6 Dec 2016 | Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi | The Girls who went to war At Verulamium Museum. |
2017 |
Fri 6 Jan 2017 | New Year Party | 7.30pm at Verulamium Museum |
Tue 10 Jan 2017 | Peter Doyle | British Postcards of the First World War – Humour and Reality |
Tue 17 Jan 2017 | Patrick McNeill | The Logbooks of St Helen’s School, Wheathampstead *At Verulamium Museum* |
Fri 27 Jan 2017 | Dr Geoffrey Tyack | The Man who transformed London |
Tue 7 Feb 2017 | The Gentle Author | The Cries of London |
Tue 14 Feb 2017 | Mike Neighbour | What lies beneath |
Fri 24 Feb 2017 | Prof. James G. Clark | War among the Ruins – Medieval Heritage and the First World War |
Tue 7 Mar 2017 | Hugh Howes | Wind, Water and Steam – the Story of Hertfordshire’s Mills |
Tue 14 Mar 2017 | Taylor Downing | The Making of the epic 1916 propaganda film – The Battle of the Somme |
Fri 24 Mar 2017 | Paul Langston | Hertfordshire Almshouses |
Tue 4 Apr 2017 | Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan | Wallingford Castle and the Road to Regicide |
Tue 11 Apr 2017 | Dr Simon Heffer | The Age of Decadence |
Fri 21 Apr 2017 | Prof. Jonathan Phillips | Saladin – Life and Legend – From the Medieval Age to the 21st Century |
Tue 9 May 2017 | Jeremy Goldsmith | The Hanseatic League |
Fri 19 May 2017 | Adrian Tinniswood | The Long Weekend – Life in the English Country House between the Wars |
Tue 12 Sept 2017 | Louise Fowler | AGM 7.30pm followed at 7.45 pm by Louise Fowler: Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men; excavations at the Royal London Hospital |
Tue 19 Sept 2017 | Professor Carenza Lewis | Plague pits – reconstructing the impact of the Black Death on rural communities |
Fri 29 Sept 2017 | Christian Wolmar | Fire & Steam – How the Railways changed Britain |
Tue 10 Oct 2017 | Jon Mein | Public Commemoration and the Great War, 1914-1925 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017 | Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick | Searching For Julius Caesar |
Fri 27 Oct 2017 | Dr Jaromir Malek | The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Fact and Fiction |
Tue 7 Nov 2017 | Christine Aitken | Childwickbury: A Short History |
Tue 14 Nov 2017 | Dr Isobel Thompson | How Hertfordshire entered the Roman Empire |
Fri 24 Nov 2017 | Katherine Watts | Transforming historical buildings – St Albans Old Town Hall At St Albans School |
Tue 5 Dec 2017 | Kris Lockyear | Verulamium Revealed |
2018 |
Fri 5 Jan 2018 | | New Year Party 7.30 pm Verulamium Museum |
Tue 9 Jan 2018 | Nik Pringle | 180 Years of Policing in St Albans |
Tue 16 Jan 2018 | John Morewood | Waterloo General |
Fri 26 Jan 2018 | Professor James G Clark | The People of St Albans and their Abbey At St Albans School |
Tue 6 Feb 2018 | Mark Pardoe | London Underground |
Tue 13 Feb 2018 | Helen Fry | The M Room Trent Park |
Fri 23 Feb 2018 | Viscountess Grimston | History & architecture of 18th century Gorhambury |
Tue 6 Mar 2018 | Professor James Walvin | Slavery in Small Things: Slavery & Modern Culture |
Tue 13 Mar 2018 | Nathen Amin | The House of Beaufort |
Fri 23 Mar 2018 | Neil Taylor | Estonia: 100 Years of Independence |
Tue 10 Apr 2018 | Duncan Barrett | Men of Letters: The Post Office during WW2 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018 | Philip Hook | Rogues Gallery |
Fri 27 Apr 2018 | John Campbell | Roy Jenkins: The best PM we never had |
Tue 15 May 2018 | Karin Kaye | Transforming Historical buildings with particular reference to St Albans |
Fri 1 Jun 2018 | Mark Knight | Must Farm Excavation |
Tues 11 Sep 2018 | AGM Kate Harwood | 7.30 pm at the church followed by Repton and the Regency Park and Garden in Hertfordshire |
Tues 18 Sep 2018 | Richard Luscombe and John Wallace | Wrest Park – Thomas Archer’s Pavilion |
Tues 25 Sep 2018 | Louis Berk | Whitechapel in 50 Buildings |
Tues 9 Oct 2018 | Dr Peter Burley | Marshalswick Mansion & St Albans’s Country House Heritage |
Tues 16 Oct 2018 | Dr Martin Holmes | Neville Chamberlain: A Reputation Restored |
Tues 23 Oct 2018 | Dr Frances Harris | The General in Winter: Marlborough / Godolphin relationship |
Tues 6 Nov 2018 | Ross Lane | The Monks’ Graveyard Excavation: Finding a Lost Abbot at the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban |
Tues 13 Nov 2018 | Dr Kris Lockyear | Lamer Park |
Tues 20 Nov 2018 | Prof. Stephen Alford | Sir Thomas Gresham’s Exchange |
Tues 4 Dec 2018 | Robin Ollington | St Albans School in World War Two |
2019 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019 | New Year Party | 7.30 pm at Verulamium Museum |
Tue 15 Jan 2019 | Louise Fowler | London Mithraeum: A New Home for the Temple of Mithras |
Tue 22 Jan 2019 | Julia Merrick | From Farm to Avenue (Note: this replaces the previously advertised talk) |
Tue 5 Feb 2019 | Duncan Barrett | Hitler’s British Isles |
Tue 12 Feb 2019 | Patrick McNeill & Peter Jeffreys | The Rise & Fall of the Pubs of Wheathampstead 1830-1914 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019 | Francesca Weal | Something Old, Something New: Conservation Architecture in Practice |
Tue 5 Mar 2019 | Dr Yaromir Malek | The City of Memphis: Egypt Herself |
Tue 12 Mar 2019 | Fabian Hiscock | An Eligible Project: The Economic Impact of the Grand Junction Canal on West Hertfordshire 1791-1841 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019 | John Morewood | ‘Five days of tumult’ – the 1810 mutiny of the Local Militia in St Albans and its unforeseen consequences |
Tue 2 Apr 2019 | John Cox | Jim Forrester (later 5th Earl of Verulam) and the Unemployed in South Wales, 1931-1947 |
Tue 9 Apr 2019 | Prof. Margot Finn | The East India Company at Home: in and beyond Hertfordshire |
Tue 16 Apr 2019 | Dr Neil Faulkner | Lawrence of Arabia: Excavating a Legend in the Deserts of Southern Jordan |
Tue 7 May 2019 | Simon West | 25 Years of Highlights in Archaeology in St Albans |
Tue 14 May 2019 | Richard Griffiths | Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs of being Cathedral Architect at St Albans for 17 years |
Tue 21 May 2019 | Dr James Lewis | London’s Lea Valley: Britain’s best kept secret? |
Tue 10 September | Ann Dean, Dr Tony Berk, Rob Weston | “A fiver for your vote, Sir?” Bribery and corruption in St Albans, 1850 |
Tue 17 September | Helen Gibson | Hugh Myddelton and the New River |
Tue 24 September | Rebecca Rideal | 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire |
Tue 8 October | Emma Jeffrey | A landscape through time: excavations along the A14 |
Tue 15 October | Dr Katrina Navickas | The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 and its significance in the history of democracy in Britain |
Tue 22 October | Jon Mein | The decline of the many inns of St Albans, 1660-1850 |
Tue 5 November | Alison Moller | The history of the garden and grounds of Wimpole Hall |
Tue 12 November | Dr Ian St John | Disraeli and the historians |
Tue 19 November | Dr Yannis Galankis | Discovering a monumental Mycenaen tomb in central Greece |
Tue 3 December | Robin Ollington | Before they fade; recollections of Chelsea pensioners |
2020 |
Tue 14 January | Simon Langsdale | Thomas Ward Blagg |
Tue 21 January | Dr Martin Holmes | Harold Wilson: a reputation revised |
Tue 4 February | Ryan Butterfield | Heritage, conservation and modern practice. |
Tue 18 February | Anthony Oliver | Maritime St Albans |
Tue 3 March | Stephen Williams and Jean Yates | The origins of the Grand National in St Albans |
Tue 10 March | Emily Gee | Housing for Victorian and Edwardian working women |
Note: Lectures and other SAHAAS events were suspended on Government advice due to coronavirus. The lecture programme resumed online via ‘Zoom’ in the Autumn. |
Tue 15 September | Sandy Walkington | Migration, Food and the St Albans Experience |
Tue 22 September | Philippa Hurst | The Americas: Old World or New World |
Tue 6 October | Dr Peter Burley | Why the Barons came to St Albans |
Tue 13 October | Sarah Keeling | Setting up and Exhibition |
Tue 20 October | Dr Mark Freeman | Pageants, Community and the Past: Reflection on a historical research project |
Tue 3 November | John Morewood | The Struggle to end slavery and the slave trade 1802-1843: the forgotten role of Henry Brougham |
Tue 10 November | Kris Lockyear | A Hertfordshire landscape: from Bronze Age to Medieval |
Tue 17 November | Dr Tony Berk | The origins and history of Harpenden |
Tue 1 December | Kate Morris | John Fothergill and St Albans’ Interaction with the Industrial Revolution |
2021 |
Tue 12 January | Rebecca Rideal | 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire |
Tue 19 January | Dr David Rundle | The literary legacy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester – linking the Bodleian Library and St Albans |
Tue 2 February | Dr Seb Falk | The Light Ages: the monks and machines of medieval St Albans |
Tue 9 February | Frank Iddiols | St Albans Ordnance Survey Mapping with special reference to the centenary of the National Datum |
Tue 16 February | Philippa Parker and Janet Capstick | Industrial Letchworth: The First Garden City, 1903-20 |
Tue 2 March | Clare B. Dimyon | Quaker Service in Russia: draining the marshes of St Petersburg, 1817-40 |
Tue 9 March | Jon Mein | The Red Lion: the 500-year story of a St Albans inn |
Tue 16 March | Dr Wendy Morrison | Beacons of the Past – investigating a prehistoric Chilterns Landscape |
Tue 6 April | Laura Spinney | The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world |
Tue 13 April | Lyn Blackmore | The Prittlewell Prince – an Anglo Saxon burial chamber in its local and wider context |
Tue 20 April | Prof. Margot Finn, Sarah Lloyd, Rebecca Finn | The Future of History: the next 176 years |
Tue 4 May | Prof. Jonathan Morris | Coffee: a global history |
Tue 11 May | Chris Bennett | Apsley Cherry-Garrard: Hertfordshire’s antarctic explorer |
Tue 18 May | Richard Griffiths | Regeneration in East London: Toynbee Hall, the London Dock and the Royal London Hospital |
Tue 15 June | Dr Peter Burley | What did the River Tyburn ever do for us? |
Tue 22 June | Kris Lockyear, Jon Mein, and Jill Singer | ‘Poking and Prying with a Purpose’ – the joys, triumphs and tribulations of research. |