HALH Spring Meeting 2026
This year's Spring Meeting took place at Tewin Memorial Hall on Saturday 16 May.
The morning session began with a welcome to Tewin and short talks from members of local history societies on items of current interest and research:
Linda Gilley: Welcome to Tewin and “Tewin and the Cowper connection”.
Jon Mein: Straw hat Making in St Albans
David Blowers ‘Thundridge Old Church – Cherish or Demolish’
Jon Mein: “News from Barkway: inns and a museum”
Bridget Howlett: 'The Hertfordshire Walled Kitchen Garden Project'
The afternoon session commenced with the AGM at which we welcomed new trustee, Philippa Parker, as our membership secretary and said goodbye to trustees Elaine Saunders and Alan Thomson as well as to associate member and former chair Helen Hofton.
Awards for personal achievement were presented by president, Heather Falvey, to David Short, Jane Harris and to Pat Howe (in her absence). See our Awards page for further details.
This year's Lionel Munby lecture was given by 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.
This year's Spring Meeting took place at Tewin Memorial Hall on Saturday 16 May.
The morning session began with a welcome to Tewin and short talks from members of local history societies on items of current interest and research:
Linda Gilley: Welcome to Tewin and “Tewin and the Cowper connection”.
Jon Mein: Straw hat Making in St Albans
David Blowers ‘Thundridge Old Church – Cherish or Demolish’
Jon Mein: “News from Barkway: inns and a museum”
Bridget Howlett: 'The Hertfordshire Walled Kitchen Garden Project'
The afternoon session commenced with the AGM at which we welcomed new trustee, Philippa Parker, as our membership secretary and said goodbye to trustees Elaine Saunders and Alan Thomson as well as to associate member and former chair Helen Hofton.
Awards for personal achievement were presented by president, Heather Falvey, to David Short, Jane Harris and to Pat Howe (in her absence). See our Awards page for further details.
This year's Lionel Munby lecture was given by 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.