Local History Societies’ meetings in Essex 2019
With thanks to Christopher Thompson.
Information accurate at time of publication
Billericay
Archaeological and Historical Society
Our monthly
meetings are held at The Fold, Arts Centre, located off Laindon Road,
Billericay, where we meet on the second Monday of each month at 8:00 pm.
Monday 14th January
|
“Vicky English Princess &
German Empress” Speaker Margaret Mills |
Monday 11th
February
|
“Brunell”
Speaker Roger Manion |
Monday 11th March
|
“Norfolk Wherry Maud Trust”
Speaker Linda Pargeter |
Monday 8th April
|
AGM 7.30pm followed by
“Customs & Traditions of London” Speaker Mark Lewis |
Monday 13th May
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“Women in Medieval London”
Speaker Caroline Baron |
Monday 10th June
|
“Mesolithic Archaeology”
Speaker Maria Medlecott |
Monday 8th July
|
“New York, New York”
Speaker Ann Hardy |
No meeting in August
|
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Monday 9th September
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“The Titanic”
Speaker Denis Lynch |
Monday 14th October
|
“Early Policing in Billericay”
Speaker Peter Layzel |
Monday 11th November
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“The Shakespeare Conspiracy”
Speaker Julian Whybra |
Monday 9th December
|
“A giant of the 19th century -
Abraham Lincoln” Speaker Margaret Mills |
Chingford
Historical Society
Our meetings are held at SS Peter and Paul Church on The
Green, North Chingford at 7.30.p.m. on the third Thursday of each month from
October till April inclusive. Talks on local and general history are
illustrated and there is an interval where tea and biscuits can be
obtained. Non-members are welcome to attend for a small
fee payable at the door.
No meetings are yet listed.
Clacton and
District Local History Society at 7.30 P.M at Pier Avenue Baptist
Church.
17TH JANUARY. NORMAN JACOBS. “CRACKED EGGS AND CHICKEN SOUP.”
21ST FEBRUARY. MALCOLM BATTY. “THE
KIRBY RIOTS”
21ST MARCH. GEORGE HARDWICK. “WHAT
IS NEW IN OUR ARCHIVE?”.
18TH APRIL. ROGER KENNELL. “WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO SOUTHCLIFF?”
16TH MAY. BILL SMITH. “AVIATION
ARCHAEOLOGY AND ST OSYTH WW2 MUSEUM”
20TH JUNE. BRIAN D'ARCY. “GHOSTS
OF THE TOWER OF LONDON.”
18TH JULY. MEMBERS SHORT PRESENTATIONS. GILL GREEN AND SANDRA ADAMS
SALMON.
15TH AUGUST. VIC MILLER. “AN
EVENING OF VISUAL IMAGES ”
19TH SEPTEMBER. DAVID WHITTLE. “WW1
THE HARWICH FORCE,CAPTAIN FRYATT,THE SS BRUSSELS AND THE SURRENDER OF THE U
BOATS INTO HARWICH HARBOUR.”
17TH OCTOBER. A.G.M. A SHORT DVD
OF JOHNSON'S OF CLACTON BY ANTHONY ALLSTON A LOCAL RESIDENT.
21ST NOVEMBER. FRANCIS BOARDMAN. “THE GREAT STINK”,THE BUILDING OF LONDON'S SEWERS.
19TH DECEMBER MILLER. XMAS QUIZ.
Elsenham Village History Society
1.
Elsenham Village History Society Quarterly Meeting - Roger Barrett -'The
Fuller Maitlands at Stansted Hall'
March 13, 2019 8:00 p.m. at Elsenham Memorial Hall Free to Members - Visitors always welcome only £2 Tea and Coffee will be available from 7:45p.m. (Agenda will be available about 1 week prior to meeting) |
2.
Elsenham Village History Society Quarterly Meeting - Lee Player - Thatching
History and Practice
June 12, 2019 8:00 p.m. at Elsenham Memorial Hall Free to Members - Visitors always welcome only £2 Tea and Coffee will be available from 7:45p.m. (Agenda will be available about 1 week prior to meeting) |
3.
Elsenham Village History Society Quarterly Meeting - Bill Hardy- Building
Kings College Chapel and Arabic assembly marks
September 11, 2019 8:00 p.m. at Elsenham Memorial Hall Free to Members - Visitors always welcome only £2 Tea and Coffee will be available from 7:45p.m. (Agenda will be available about 1 week prior to meeting) |
4.
Elsenham Village History Society Quarterly Meeting -Mark Carroll - DNA
Surnames and Genealogy
November 13, 2019 8:00 pm at Elsenham Memorial Hall Free to Members - Visitors always welcome only £2 Tea and Coffee will be available from 7:45p.m. (Agenda will be available about 1 week prior to meeting) |
5.
Elsenham Village History Society Quarterly Meeting - Illustrated Talk - The
Story of Elsenham Jam - Ray Franklin Chairman Elsenham Village History
Society
March 12, 2020 8:00 pm at Elsenham Memorial Hall Free to Members - Visitors always welcome only £2 Tea and Coffee will be available from 7:45p.m. (Agenda will be available about 1 week prior to meeting) |
Halstead and
District Local history Society
All events take place at 7:30pm in the Baptist Church,
Hedingham Road, Halstead unless otherwise stated.
No meetings are yet listed for 2019.
Hedingham
Heritage Society
10 January, Thursday 7:45pm The Memorial Hall,
Castle Hedingham
Pictorial
History of Essex / Suffolk Border - Ashley Cooper
Historical
Association (Essex Branch)
Talks are on Saturdays at 2.30pm
Venue: Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1
2XB.
Free parking at the Church or in the County Council car-park
opposite.
Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - a £3 donation
requested.
12th January
The Weimar Republic
and its difficult birth
Dr Eric Boston,
Director of Academic Liaison, Head of Humanities, Head of History and Politics,
CATs Cambridge
2nd February
The Case of the
Petrified Leg and other 18th century Medical Curiosities
Dr Lisa Smith,
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Essex
2nd March
Some Ancient Greeks in
Roman Britain
Professor Edith Hall,
Professor of Classics, King's College, University of London
6th April
'Please, Sir, I want
some more'. What did they eat in Victorian Britain?
Dr Robert Hopkinson,
former Head of History, Wolsingham School, former Secretary, Durham HA Branch,
and recent Treasurer, Cumbria HA Branch
11th May
'The March of the
Women': The Campaign for Women's Suffrage in Britain?
Dr Robert Saunders,
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen Mary College, University of
London
Jaywick Local
History Society
- Monday21st.January
2019. The 'After Christmas Meal ' at Clacton
Golf Club - 12.30 for 1.00pm.
- Tuesday 5th. February
John Worland - 'The Essex
Witches'
- Tuesday 2nd. April
Nicholas Charrington - 'Layer
Marney Tower'
- Tuesday 4th. June. Brian
Thurlow - 'The Red Barn Murders'
- Tuesday 6th. August. Peter
Jones - 'The Great Essex Earthquake'
- Tuesday 1st. October. A.G.M. followed by Richard A. Scott - 'The Story of
Bourne Mill'
Leyton and
Leytonstone Historical Society
7.45pm Wednesday
January 16th 2019 *
Les Capon talks
about his latest year as an archaeologist.
Leyton Sixth
Form College (Room HE4), Essex Road, Leyton E10 6EQ (buses along Lea Bridge
Road)
7.45pm Wednesday
February 20th 2019 *
A talk by
Richard Gray ‘Shakespeare’s London to the West End Playhouse ‘
St John's Hall,
off High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 by the entrance to the Matalan store,
(not far from Leytonstone Central Line station)
£2 contribution requested from visitors.
Newport Local
History Group
No events are currently listed.
Saffron Walden
Historical society
7.45
pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, High Street, Saffron Walden – All welcome.
Members can join at this meeting for just £7 a year which entitles you to free
entry to seven lectures.
Wednesday 23
January 2019 – The Long Road to Brexit: Robin O’Neill
Wed 27 Feb: The archaeological landscape of Great
Chesterford: Jacqui Hutton
Wed 27 Mar: The Italian artist Biagio Rebecca and his work
at Audley End: Peter Moore
Wed 24 April: The Cutlers of Thaxted 1350-1450: Richard Till
South Woodham
Ferrers Local History Society
Meetings held at Champions Manor Hall
Community Centre, 94 Hullbridge Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. CM3 5LJ.
Meetings start at 8pm.
01245 321518
Wednesday 6 February 2019. Railway Branch Lines to Maldon. Nathaniel Dodd
Wednesday 6 March 2019. The history of Lodges Coaches. Robert Lodge
Wednesday 3 April 2019. One day in the Battle of Britain in Essex, 29
October 1940. Neil Wiffin, Essex Record
Office
Wednesday 1 May 2019. Essex Church Brasses. Martin Stuchfield,
Monumental Brass Society.
Wednesday 5 June 2019. Society’s outdoor visit
Stebbing Local
History Society
All meetings are held at the
Stebbing Village Hall, Mill Lane, Stebbing, Essex, CM6 3SL. Entry is free to
members and guests are charged £2.
Five meetings are held per
year on the second Monday of the months of February, April, June, September and
November. All meetings start at 8 p.m. The meetings always consist of a guest
speaker on a local subject and there is always a display of different documents
and photographs from our archives.
No meetings are yet listed for 2019.
Thurrock Local
History Society
Meetings are held at Thurrock Adult Community
College, Richmond Road, Grays Thurrock, Essex, RM17 6DN. All meetings begin at 8.00 pm unless
indicated otherwise. The AGM begins at 7.30 pm. Most talks are illustrated and there is a
break for refreshments.
Membership Subscriptions: Adults - £15.00, Students - £4.00, Under
age 16 - free, Visitors (per meeting) - £2.00 Visitors are very welcome at all
meetings.
Friday, 18th January 2019. The
Great War - a review by Brett Goodyear
Friday, 15th February 2019.
Ghosts and Graves in Barking and Dagenham by Linda Rhodes
Friday 15th March 2019. Belhus
and the Barrett Lennards by Susan Yates
Friday, 26th April 2019. The
Annual General Meeting (starts at 7.30) followed by DNA - what can it tell us? by John Matthews
Friday, 17th May 2019. Machu
Picchu by Scott Sullivan
Waltham Abbey
Historical Society
We organise a series of lectures on the
third Fridays of September to May, at the Baptist Church, Paradise Road,
Waltham Abbey EN9 1RL, 8-10pm with a refreshment break. Anyone is welcome to
come; members are free and we invite a £1 donation from non-members.
Friday 18th January 2019: St Albans: The First 1000 Years. Sally Pearson
Friday 15th February 2019: Their Name Liveth for Evermore: The Story
of the Unknown Soldier and War Memorials.
Martyn Lockwood
Friday 15th March 2019. Puddephatt Memorial Lecture: A Church Saved
for the People and the Nation: The 1960-65 Restoration of the
Parish Church of the Holy Cross and St Lawrence, Waltham Abbey. Grenville Weltch.
Friday 12th April 2019 (this is the 2nd Friday of
April): Presidential Address &
Annual General Meeting
Friday 17th May 2019: The West End of the Church at Waltham Abbey:
Mysteries and Modifications. Lawrence
Greenall & Steve Miller
PARKING: the large Corn Mill Car Park is behind the Town Hall
(its entrance is to the side of Muhinur restaurant, Greenyard, EN9 1RD)
free in the evenings. The Baptist church is a 2-minute walk from the car park
exit, heading due east through an archway in a 1960s block of flats.