This category includes articles on talks given at Local History Society meetings, and on group visits associated with talks.
Before the Developers got at it: Harpenden 1945-1960
Report of a talk to the Society at the Society's meeting held on 26 January 2016.
Being Prepared: A Brief History of Scouting
Report of a talk to the Society at the Society's meeting held on 23 February 2016.
Chocks away at Shuttleworth
Report of a visit to the Shuttleworth Collection on 4 September 2016.
F. H. Crittall: Metal Windows and Modernism
Report of a talk given to the Society on 26 April 2016 by Adam Smith.
Gorhambury through the Ages - 1771-2017
Report of a talk given by Viscountess Grimston at the Society's meeting held on Tuesday 17th January 2017
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
A report on the presentation given to the Society by Alexander Thomas on 22 March 2016.
Living on the Common: a landscape history of Harpenden Common
Report of a talk given to the Society on 20 September 2016 by Anne Rowe, freelance historian
Medieval churches in North Bedfordshire
Visit led by Aymeric Jenkins on 16 April 2016
The Clinton-Baker Pinetum at Bayfordbury
Report of a talk given to the Society on 28 June 2016 by Dr Edward Eastwood, Curator.
The Medieval Churches of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire
Talk to the Society by Aymeric Jenkins, 24 February 2015
The Spy who is buried in Harpenden
Report of Dr John Versey's talk to the Society on 23 June 2015
Treasures of the Hertfordshire Archives - The Amy Coburn Lecture
Report of the talk given to the Society by Diane Hodgson following the Society's AGM held on 25 April 2017
Visit to Redbournbury Mill
Society visit on 2 January 2016
Front Line Kent - Coastal Defences of the Kent Coast.
Talk to the Society by Dr Peter Webster on 28 October 2014
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
A talk by Nigel McMurray to the Society on 22 October 2013
Pictures in the Museum of St Albans
Talk to the Society 0n 1 April 2014, by Catherine Newley, Curator
The Life and Times of Charles Hill
Talk by Susan Fairbairn, daughter of the late "Radio Doctor", on 25 February 2014
Luton's Markets and Fairs
Talk to the Society on 24 June 2014
Luton Hoo Mansion
Society visits in March 2014
Luton Hoo Mansion and Estate
A talk to the Society by Len Fowler on 28th January 2014.
From Arkwright to Mayor
Talk by Michael Weaver, June 2012
Batford Springs: Harpenden's local nature reserve
A talk given by Oliver Randall to the Society on 25 September 2012.
Childwickbury Stud
Society visit in August 2011
Elmfield School
Illustrations from a talk by Judy Hamblin and Margaret Hewitt on 29 January 2013.
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
Talk by David Thorold of Verulamium Museum
The Second Battle of St Albans - 17 February 1461
Talk to the Society by Peter Burley and Harvey Watson on 23 February 2013
The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire
Talk by John Catt to April 2012 meeting of the Society
The First Battle of St Albans
February 2012 society meeting
The College of Arms
Talk by John Tunesi, October 2011
The Civil War in Hertfordshire - 1642-1647
Talk to the Society by Dr Alan Thompson, September 2011
Maps in the last 300 years
A talk by Alan Ruston to the Society, April 2011
The "Time Team" at Norman Cross
Prisoner of War camp in the Napoleonic Wars, February 2011
Building the St. Albans Bypass (now 50 years old)
A talk by Peter Fells at the Society's January 2011 meeting
Hertfordshire Bridges
Talk by Richard Lavender, on 22nd September 2009
Hertfordshire Transportations
Extreme sentences for Codicote offenders: report of a talk to Local History Society in 2003