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 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.
The HALH Symposium 2019, Local History: Landscape & Archaeology will take place on Saturday 9 November 2019 at Woolmer Green Village Hall.
We shall be looking at the links between archaeology and local history and ranging widely across the county. Further details can be found in the Spring 2019 edition of News & Events. An application form will be published in the Autumn 2019 edition of News & Events and will also be available here.
The HALH Symposium 2018, 'From Roman City to New Towns', took place on Saturday 10 November in Lemsford and covered the following topics.
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
Below - the HALH Symposium 2016: Hertfordshire at War through the Centuries, held on Saturday 12 November at Ewen Hall, Barnet.
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 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.
The HALH Symposium 2019, Local History: Landscape & Archaeology will take place on Saturday 9 November 2019 at Woolmer Green Village Hall.
We shall be looking at the links between archaeology and local history and ranging widely across the county. Further details can be found in the Spring 2019 edition of News & Events. An application form will be published in the Autumn 2019 edition of News & Events and will also be available here.
The HALH Symposium 2018, 'From Roman City to New Towns', took place on Saturday 10 November in Lemsford and covered the following topics.
- Verulamium: Hertfordshire's first Garden City?
- Saxon Burghs and medieval market towns
- No taxation without representation: the Chartist Land Colony
- Hertford in the eighteenth century
- St Albans in the eighteenth century
- Hitchin in the nineteenth century
- Lemsford in the nineteenth century
- Writers and thinkers on the Garden City Idea: Ebenezer Howard and George Bernard Shaw
- Letchworth - England's only new industrial town?
- Stevenage: The first post-war New Town
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
Below - the HALH Symposium 2016: Hertfordshire at War through the Centuries, held on Saturday 12 November at Ewen Hall, Barnet.
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