HALH Spring Meeting 2026
This year's Spring Meeting will take place at Tewin Memorial Hall, 11A Lower Green, Tewin, Welwyn AL6 0JX, on Saturday 16 May. There is good on-site parking. Admission is free for HALH members, £2 for visitors.
The morning session commences at 11.00 and will include short talks from members of local history societies in the county on items of current interest and research.
The afternoon session will commence with the AGM, followed by the Lionel Munby lecture. This year our speaker will be
Professor Mark Bailey, Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He has researched extensively
many aspects of late medieval social and economic history, focussing particularly on evidence from manorial records. His
latest book, Serfdom in Medieval England, using the well-documented St Albans abbey estates of Codicote, Norton and
Winslow, analyses the effects of the Black Death on serfdom, its decline and how manorial lords managed their estates
thereafter.
HALH Spring Meeting 2025
This year's Spring Meeting will take place at Tewin Memorial Hall, 11A Lower Green, Tewin, Welwyn AL6 0JX, on Saturday 16 May. There is good on-site parking. Admission is free for HALH members, £2 for visitors.
The morning session commences at 11.00 and will include short talks from members of local history societies in the county on items of current interest and research.
The afternoon session will commence with the AGM, followed by the Lionel Munby lecture. This year our speaker will be
Professor Mark Bailey, Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He has researched extensively
many aspects of late medieval social and economic history, focussing particularly on evidence from manorial records. His
latest book, Serfdom in Medieval England, using the well-documented St Albans abbey estates of Codicote, Norton and
Winslow, analyses the effects of the Black Death on serfdom, its decline and how manorial lords managed their estates
thereafter.
HALH Spring Meeting 2025
Nicholas Maddex, chair of HALH, opens the Spring Meeting Heather Falvey (middle) 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.