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 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2021 Hertfordshire’s Historic Waterways
This year's Symposium took place on Saturday 20 November 2021 at the Memorial Hall in Tewin, when we shall be looking at the rivers and waterways of the county – their natural history, the way they’ve influenced human settlement, and the role they’ve played in the development of industry and transport.
The programme was as follows:
The New River: Neither New nor a River Alan Thomson
SAHAAS book news, ‘Mistress of Gorhambury: Lady Anne Bacon, Tudor courtier and Scholar’ by Deborah Spring
Meadows, Water meadows and Watercress: using Hertfordshire’s Floodplains Tom Williamson
HRS book news Ashwell Overseers' Accounts, 1676-1722, edited by David Short
Rickmansworth History Society book news Pre-Reformation Wills from Rickmansworth Parish (1409-1539) Heather Falvey
How Country Estates made use of Waterways Anne Rowe
Passing Through: The Grand Junction Canal in West Hertfordshire, 1791– 1841 Fabian Hiscock
HALH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2020
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to alter our plans for the 2020 Symposium. Four of the talks which were due to be given at the Symposium were made available online via Zoom on Wednesday evenings during November.
Recent symposiums:
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
2019 Landscape & Archaeology
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 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2021 Hertfordshire’s Historic Waterways
This year's Symposium took place on Saturday 20 November 2021 at the Memorial Hall in Tewin, when we shall be looking at the rivers and waterways of the county – their natural history, the way they’ve influenced human settlement, and the role they’ve played in the development of industry and transport.
The programme was as follows:
The New River: Neither New nor a River Alan Thomson
SAHAAS book news, ‘Mistress of Gorhambury: Lady Anne Bacon, Tudor courtier and Scholar’ by Deborah Spring
Meadows, Water meadows and Watercress: using Hertfordshire’s Floodplains Tom Williamson
HRS book news Ashwell Overseers' Accounts, 1676-1722, edited by David Short
Rickmansworth History Society book news Pre-Reformation Wills from Rickmansworth Parish (1409-1539) Heather Falvey
How Country Estates made use of Waterways Anne Rowe
Passing Through: The Grand Junction Canal in West Hertfordshire, 1791– 1841 Fabian Hiscock
HALH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2020
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to alter our plans for the 2020 Symposium. Four of the talks which were due to be given at the Symposium were made available online via Zoom on Wednesday evenings during November.
- Helen Fry, ‘Trent Park: Home of the Secret Listeners’
- Alistair Hodgson, ‘Salisbury Hall and the de Havilland Aircraft company’
- Roger Yapp, ‘Poles Apart: The story of Barnes Lodge, Kings Langley in World War 2’
- Des Turner, ‘The Special Operations Executive (SOE) at Aston House, the Frythe, Briggens and The Thatched Barn’
Recent symposiums:
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
2019 Landscape & Archaeology
Click here for a list of our past symposiums
Below: HALH Symposium November 2019