HALH Spring Meeting & AGM 2019 - Saturday 18 May - 11.00 am
Pirton Village Hall
45 High Street, Pirton, Hitchin SG5 3PS
This year we will be marking the legacy of Lionel Munby, who died ten years ago at the age of 90. Lionel was one of a generation of local historians who enjoyed sharing the knowledge and skills gained in their academic life with those interested in exploring and recording the story of their own communities.
During the morning session we hope to have a series of short presentations from some of these societies so that we can learn more about their association with Lionel and what they’ve been doing during the intervening years.
Also as part of the morning session we will have a presentation from Hertfordshire’s landscape historian Anne Rowe about her latest book, published by the University of Hertfordshire Press, entitled Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire.
The afternoon session will commence with the AGM, followed by the Lionel Munby memorial lecture. This year our speaker will be David Short, who will talk to us about ‘The Middling Sorts’ – the people who were mentioned in the overseer’s accounts but who were not ‘the poor'.
Admission is free for HALH members, £2 for visitors.
The HALH Spring Meeting and AGM 2018 took place on Saturday 19 May at Tewin Memorial Hall.
Former chairman, Linda Gilley, gave a short welcome talk about the village of Tewin. A series of ten minute talks about their work and research was given by representatives of local societies from Rickmansworth, Tring, Watford & Wheathampstead, as well as by Lowewood Museum in Hoddesdon. President, Dorothy Abel Smith, read some short extracts from John Carrington's diaries vol II. A buffet lunch was provided and members then had the opportunity to visit St Peter's Church. The AGM was followed by the presentation of the 2018 HALH award to Mike Neighbour for his work in St Albans. Dr Ceri Houlbrook gave the Lionel Munby Memorial Lecture on The Concealed-Revealed Project - objects hidden in the fabric of old houses later discovered by modern day residents.
Pirton Village Hall
45 High Street, Pirton, Hitchin SG5 3PS
This year we will be marking the legacy of Lionel Munby, who died ten years ago at the age of 90. Lionel was one of a generation of local historians who enjoyed sharing the knowledge and skills gained in their academic life with those interested in exploring and recording the story of their own communities.
During the morning session we hope to have a series of short presentations from some of these societies so that we can learn more about their association with Lionel and what they’ve been doing during the intervening years.
Also as part of the morning session we will have a presentation from Hertfordshire’s landscape historian Anne Rowe about her latest book, published by the University of Hertfordshire Press, entitled Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire.
The afternoon session will commence with the AGM, followed by the Lionel Munby memorial lecture. This year our speaker will be David Short, who will talk to us about ‘The Middling Sorts’ – the people who were mentioned in the overseer’s accounts but who were not ‘the poor'.
Admission is free for HALH members, £2 for visitors.
The HALH Spring Meeting and AGM 2018 took place on Saturday 19 May at Tewin Memorial Hall.
Former chairman, Linda Gilley, gave a short welcome talk about the village of Tewin. A series of ten minute talks about their work and research was given by representatives of local societies from Rickmansworth, Tring, Watford & Wheathampstead, as well as by Lowewood Museum in Hoddesdon. President, Dorothy Abel Smith, read some short extracts from John Carrington's diaries vol II. A buffet lunch was provided and members then had the opportunity to visit St Peter's Church. The AGM was followed by the presentation of the 2018 HALH award to Mike Neighbour for his work in St Albans. Dr Ceri Houlbrook gave the Lionel Munby Memorial Lecture on The Concealed-Revealed Project - objects hidden in the fabric of old houses later discovered by modern day residents.
Place House Hall, Ware - venue for the HALH Spring Meeting in 2017
Mike Quinn [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons