HALH Symposium
Each year HALH organises a Symposium on Hertfordshire history, with a number of speakers, usually with a linking theme. The event normally takes place on the first or second Saturday in November. Local history societies from around the county have stalls where they sell their publications and display their latest research. The day is the highlight of the local history calendar in Hertfordshire, and is a great opportunity to hear local history experts, talk to fellow enthusiasts, and buy the latest publications. Coffee and tea are provided.
HALH SYMPOSIUM 2020
Because of the current pandemic, we have had to alter our plans for the 2020 Symposium. Four of the talks which were due to be given at the Symposium are being made available online via Zoom. Booking details have been sent to individual members of HALH for whom we have an email address. Priority is being given to individual members in the first instance. Members who would like to book but have not received an email, please contact us.
Each talk will start at 8.00pm and last no more than 45 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for questions.
The HALH 40th Annual Symposium Local History: Landscape & Archaeology took place on Saturday 9 November 2019 at Woolmer Green. The programme included talks on:
Recent symposiums:
2014 Power in the Parish
2015 Railways in Hertfordshire: their effect on the county
2016 Hertfordshire at War through the Centuries
2017 Women of Hertfordshire
2018 From Roman City to New Towns
Click here for a list of our past symposiums
Below: HALH Symposium November 2019
Each year HALH organises a Symposium on Hertfordshire history, with a number of speakers, usually with a linking theme. The event normally takes place on the first or second Saturday in November. Local history societies from around the county have stalls where they sell their publications and display their latest research. The day is the highlight of the local history calendar in Hertfordshire, and is a great opportunity to hear local history experts, talk to fellow enthusiasts, and buy the latest publications. Coffee and tea are provided.
HALH SYMPOSIUM 2020
Because of the current pandemic, we have had to alter our plans for the 2020 Symposium. Four of the talks which were due to be given at the Symposium are being made available online via Zoom. Booking details have been sent to individual members of HALH for whom we have an email address. Priority is being given to individual members in the first instance. Members who would like to book but have not received an email, please contact us.
- Wednesday 4 November – Helen Fry, ‘Trent Park: Home of the Secret Listeners’
- Wednesday 11 November – Alistair Hodgson, ‘Salisbury Hall and the de Havilland Aircraft company’
- Wednesday 18 November – Roger Yapp, ‘Poles Apart: The story of Barnes Lodge, Kings Langley in World War 2’
- Wednesday 25 November – Des Turner, ‘The Special Operations Executive (SOE) at Aston House, the Frythe, Briggens and The Thatched Barn’
Each talk will start at 8.00pm and last no more than 45 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for questions.
The HALH 40th Annual Symposium Local History: Landscape & Archaeology took place on Saturday 9 November 2019 at Woolmer Green. The programme included talks on:
- History, archaeology, local history: a strained relationship?
- Gobions and Beyond: archaeology and garden history in Hertfordshire
- A late medieval tile kiln at Buntingford Road, Puckeridge
- Why local historians need to be archaeologically literate
- Henry VIII’s fishponds at Hunsdon
- The Kelshall Hoard
Recent symposiums:
2014 Power in the Parish
2015 Railways in Hertfordshire: their effect on the county
2016 Hertfordshire at War through the Centuries
2017 Women of Hertfordshire
2018 From Roman City to New Towns
Click here for a list of our past symposiums
Below: HALH Symposium November 2019