HALH ONLINE WINTER LECTURE SERIES
January to March each year
Our 2026 lectures are:
Thursday 22 January: Michael James discussed the history of the castle at Bishop's Stortford examining what we know about this important structure.
Wednesday 11 February: Prof. James Clark ‘The Way of St Alban’: Pilgrimage to the abbey in the Middle Ages
James Clark explored pilgrimage to this important medieval abbey.
Wednesday 18 March: Our third and final lecture is 'The Surprising Story of the Swan inn, Stevenage' by Jon Mein. Was the Swan the biggest inn in Georgian Hertfordshire? Who invested in its growth? And what was the cause of its closure in the 1840s? (Hint: it was not the railways.) For further details and to register visit our Eventbrite page here.
Our lectures are free to view and are broadcast via Zoom. They are not recorded.
Lectures in Winter 2025
Dr Ceri Houldbrook, Unlocking the Love-Lock: the history and heritage of a contemporary custom
Elizabeth Eastwood, A highwayman came riding: several notable Hertfordshire highwaymen, the facts behind the myths
Dr Rudi Newman, The Belles of Belfast: the Olympic Class Liners
Lectures in Winter 2024
Heather Falvey, Reconstructing St Mary's, Rickmansworth, from wills
Kris Lockyear, From the Neolithic to the Second World War: archaeological survey with CAGG
Christopher Connell, George Pritchett: a Victorian architect in Bishops Stortford and elsewhere
January to March each year
Our 2026 lectures are:
Thursday 22 January: Michael James discussed the history of the castle at Bishop's Stortford examining what we know about this important structure.
Wednesday 11 February: Prof. James Clark ‘The Way of St Alban’: Pilgrimage to the abbey in the Middle Ages
James Clark explored pilgrimage to this important medieval abbey.
Wednesday 18 March: Our third and final lecture is 'The Surprising Story of the Swan inn, Stevenage' by Jon Mein. Was the Swan the biggest inn in Georgian Hertfordshire? Who invested in its growth? And what was the cause of its closure in the 1840s? (Hint: it was not the railways.) For further details and to register visit our Eventbrite page here.
Our lectures are free to view and are broadcast via Zoom. They are not recorded.
Lectures in Winter 2025
Dr Ceri Houldbrook, Unlocking the Love-Lock: the history and heritage of a contemporary custom
Elizabeth Eastwood, A highwayman came riding: several notable Hertfordshire highwaymen, the facts behind the myths
Dr Rudi Newman, The Belles of Belfast: the Olympic Class Liners
Lectures in Winter 2024
Heather Falvey, Reconstructing St Mary's, Rickmansworth, from wills
Kris Lockyear, From the Neolithic to the Second World War: archaeological survey with CAGG
Christopher Connell, George Pritchett: a Victorian architect in Bishops Stortford and elsewhere