Spring 2017

Lectures are generally held at St Albans School although occasionally at Verulamium Museum which are marked with (*).

The school car park is sometimes crowded; notice will be given in the programme when possible but the School does not always warn us. The nearest public car park is at Gombards where parking is free after 6.30pm.

Meetings are open to all members of the Society; non-members may attend two meetings as guests.

The meetings normally start at 7:45pm.

Fri 6 Jan	New Year Party*	7.30pm at Verulamium Museum
Tue 10 Jan	Peter Doyle	British Postcards of the First World War – Humour and Reality
Tue 17 Jan	Patrick McNeill	The Logbooks of St Helen’s School, Wheathampstead At Verulamium Museum
Fri 27 Jan	Dr Geoffrey Tyack	The Man who transformed London
Tue 7 Feb	The Gentle Author	The Cries of London
Tue 14 Feb	Mike Neighbour	What lies beneath
Fri 24 Feb	Prof. James G. Clark	War among the Ruins – Medieval Heritage and the First World War
Tue 7 Mar	Hugh Howes	Wind, Water and Steam – the Story of Hertfordshire’s Mills
Tue 14 Mar	Taylor Downing	The Making of the epic 1916 propaganda film – The Battle of the Somme
Fri 24 Mar	Paul Langston	Hertfordshire Almshouses
Tue 4 Apr	Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan	Wallingford Castle and the Road to Regicide
Tue 11 Apr	Dr Simon Heffer	The Age of Decadence
Fri 21 Apr	Prof. Jonathan Phillips	Saladin – Life and Legend – From the Medieval Age to the 21st Century
Tue 9 May	Jeremy Goldsmith	The Hanseatic League
Fri 19 May	Adrian Tinniswood	The Long Weekend – Life in the English Country House between the Wars