HALH Spring Meeting 2024
Nicholas Maddex, chair of HALH, opens the Spring Meeting Heather Falvey (right) presents awards to Dorothy Abel Smith and Molly Anderson
HALH Spring Meeting & AGM 2025
Our Spring Meeting took place on Saturday 17 May 2025 at the Dagnall Street Baptist Church, St Albans.
Short talks were presented in the morning by representatives of some of our local societies:
The afternoon session commenced with the AGM and was followed by the presentation of the HALH Award for Personal Achievement to Dorothy Abel Smith and Molly Anderson.
The Lionel Munby lecture was given by Dr John Morewood, President of the St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society and entitled: ‘St Albans and Western Hertfordshire in the seventeenth-century Civil Wars – trials and tribulations’.
The AGM paper can be found here.
Our Spring Meeting took place on Saturday 17 May 2025 at the Dagnall Street Baptist Church, St Albans.
Short talks were presented in the morning by representatives of some of our local societies:
- Heather Falvey and Anne-Marie Ford (Hertfordshire Record Society)
- Jon Mein (The SAHAAS library)
- Felicity Brimblecombe (Hertfordshire Family History Society) on research sources
- Roger Yapp (Abbots Langley Local History Society)
- Dorothy Abel Smith (Crouchfield: a history of the Herts Training School, 1857-1982)
- Patrick McNeill, ‘Wheathampstead’s VE day Exhibition Experience’
The afternoon session commenced with the AGM and was followed by the presentation of the HALH Award for Personal Achievement to Dorothy Abel Smith and Molly Anderson.
The Lionel Munby lecture was given by Dr John Morewood, President of the St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society and entitled: ‘St Albans and Western Hertfordshire in the seventeenth-century Civil Wars – trials and tribulations’.
The AGM paper can be found here.