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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  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. 
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  • 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’
 

​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

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