The listing is shown in reverse chronological order i.e. most recent events are shown first. (click on Subject to read full details)
| Date | Subject | Speaker/Organiser |
|---|---|---|
October 9, 2024 |
Landscape morphology and Characterisation of the Willey Hundred | Matt Tuohy |
September 25, 2024 |
Tales of Tower and Steeple | Steve Barratt and Friends of St Peter's |
June 5, 2024 |
Visit to Warkton Excavation | David Errickson |
May 8, 2024 |
Visit to Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon | Management team at Cromwell Museum |
March 13, 2024 |
The Railway at Sharnbrook | Lawrence Ashfield-Bowers |
February 28, 2024 |
Forensic Archaeology: Recoveries from 19C to Present | David Errickson |
February 14, 2024 |
The Children of Styal Mill | Margaret Badley |
January 31, 2024 |
Before the Saxons: Early archaeology on the Greensand Ridge | Stephen Coleman |
January 17, 2024 |
Churchyards, Cemetries and the Victorians ;Black Feathers to Black Underwear | Kevin Varty |
November 29, 2023 |
All Our Stories | Pam Tidy, Sally Gilbert |
November 15, 2023 |
Two Dukes and Mark Antonie of Colworth House | Crispin Powell |
November 1, 2023 |
Our New Data Disk | Des Hoar |
October 18, 2023 |
Visit to Tempsford Museum | Steve Cooney |
October 4, 2023 |
The Parish Chest | Colin Scott |
September 20, 2023 |
Visit to Chester House Farm EState | Ben Symes |
June 28, 2023 |
Movers and Shakers | June Barnes et al |
June 15, 2023 |
Panacea Museum | June Barnes et al |
May 4, 2023 |
Visit to Bedford Archive | Pamela Birch |
March 22, 2023 |
Visit to Unilever Museum and Colworth House | Andrew Dycks, |
March 8, 2023 |
The Rise, Fall & Rise again of the Cardington Airships | David Fowler |
February 22, 2023 |
Stained Glass Windows and Bits of History | Bob Whapples |
February 8, 2023 |
More Maps and Images of Sharnbrook | Des Hoar |
January 25, 2023 |
Flushed with Success – a history of the Toilet | Kevin Varty |
January 11, 2023 |
Woodland Archaeology | MStephen Coleman |
December 7, 2022 |
All Our Stories | June Barnes et al |
November 23, 2022 |
Allotments : Plots and Politics | Twigs Way |
November 9, 2022 |
History of Bedford Part IV | Bob Ricketts |
October 19, 2022 |
Cholera in Bedford | Maurice Nicholson |
October 5, 2022 |
Jewel in the Crown | Steve Barratt |
September 21, 2022 |
The railway in Sharnbrook | Des Hoar |
March 23, 2022 |
The Sharnbrook Lansdscape Part 2 | Des Hoar |
March 9, 2022 |
My Life as an Archaeologist | Mike Luke |
February 23, 2022 |
Thomas Turner of Milton Ernest | Bob RIcketts, BAALHS |
February 9, 2022 |
The Willey Hundred | Matt Tuohy, recently joined HER Bedford Borough |
January 26, 2022 |
Crucifixion in the UK | David Ingham, Senior Project Manager at Albion Archaeology |
January 12, 2022 |
Celebrating 1951 Festival of Britain | Stephen Coleman , Central BEds HER (retired) |
December 1, 2021 |
The History of Bedford Part III 1914-1939 | Bob Ricketts, BAALHS |
November 17, 2021 |
The Sharnbrook Landscape PArt 1 | Des Hoar |
November 3, 2021 |
Visit to Higgins Museum | Higgins Curator/ June Barnes |
October 20, 2021 |
Bedford High Street and its History | Bob Ricketts, BAALHS |
October 6, 2021 |
Walk around Chellington Hill | Matt Tuohy |
March 10, 2021 |
A Deserted Bedfordshire Village and its Anglo-Saxon Origins | David Ingham, Albion Archaeology |
February 10, 2021 |
An Illustrated History of Bedford: King Offa to 1837 | Bob Ricketts, BAALHS |
January 27, 2021 |
The History of Bedfordshire Hedgerows | Dr Stephen Coleman, HER Central Bedfordshire |
February 26, 2020 |
Red Sky at Night , Rick’s alight: Rural protest in Bedfordshire 1830-1849 | Bob Ricketts, BAALHS |
February 12, 2020 |
A study of Settlements along the Great Ouse | Dr Judy Meade |
January 29, 2020 |
Our Stories | SLHG Members |
January 15, 2020 |
Exploring Churchyards, the lost language of headstones | Kevin Varty |
October 16, 2019 |
Warden Abbey: reconstruction painting | Margaret Roberts |
October 2, 2019 |
Bedford in WWII | Steve Barratt |
September 18, 2019 |
Our Stories | Rosmary Hughes Richard&Ann Paynter |
April 20, 2019 |
GIS Workshop | Matt Tuohy / Des Hoar |
March 14, 2019 |
Visit by Clapham Historical Society | June Barnes (host) |
April 3, 2019 |
A walk around the Jewels’ in Bedford’s Crown | Steve Barratt |
March 6, 2019 |
Pandemic | Dr Paul Davis |
February 20, 2019 |
Poor Law and the Workhouse | Kathryn Faulkner |
January 23, 2019 |
Hisstory of Church Towers | David Bond |
January 9, 2019 |
HE Bates and his Uncle Silas | Victoria Wicks |
November 28, 2018 |
Our Stories | Ray White, David Oliver, Bob Whapples |
November 14, 2018 |
Roman Bedfordshire: back of beyond or imperial estate? | David Ingham, Albion |
October 31, 2018 |
Up the Cut -a brief history of the Canals of England | Barry Tomlinson |
October 17, 2018 |
Photographic Record of Rushden | Des Hoar/Richard Handscomb/ RDHS |
October 3, 2018 |
Visit to Foster Hill Road Cemetry | Friends of the Cemetry |
September 19, 2018 |
Suffragettes in Bedfordshire | Bob Ricketts, BAALHS |
August 22, 2018 |
Piddington Roman Villa site | Roy & Liz Friendship-Taylor |
May 23, 2018 |
I never knew That! | Steve Barratt |
February 7, 2018 |
Revisit to the SLHG Picture Archive | Des Hoar |
January 24, 2018 |
Knights, Ladies, Peasants and Priests | Kathryn Faulkner |
January 10, 2018 |
World War II | Bob Whapples |
November 8, 2017 |
Land Ownership | Des Hoar |
October 25, 2017 |
Shopping in Georgian Bedford | Bob Ricketts, BAAHLS |
October 11, 2017 |
Pilot’s view of RAE | Les Evans |
September 27, 2017 |
Walk around Heritage Trail | June Barnes |
September 13, 2017 |
Roman Villa in Manton Lane | Mike Luke, Albion Archaeology |
March 22, 2017 |
A History of Street Names in Sharnbrook | Eileen Smith |
March 8, 2017 |
Visit to Earls Barton , Northants | Jeyes Family |
February 22, 2017 |
A history of RAE at Thurleigh | Barry Tomlinson |
February 8, 2017 |
Old Films on the Internet | Colin Scott |
January 25, 2017 |
An Unassuming County – The making of the BEdfordshire Countryside | Brian Kerr |
January 11, 2017 |
What do 134 holes in the ground tell us about life in the village? | June Barnes |
December 7, 2016 |
Margaret Beaufort – Saint or Schemer? | Margaret Badley |
November 23, 2016 |
Visit to The HIggins Museum Archaeology Section | Liz Pieksma |
November 9, 2016 |
A Sharnbrook Childhood | Jean Skelton |
October 26, 2016 |
Clophill and Sharnbrook – a comparative study using census data 1841 -1911 | Colin Watt |
October 12, 2016 |
Digging for Pleasure – the work of South Oxfordshire Archaeology Group | David Oliver |
September 28, 2016 |
A Guided Walk around Riseley | Andrew Gell |
September 14, 2016 |
Poachers, Thugs and Thieves | Des Hoar |
June 18, 2016 |
Bedfordshire Local History Association Annual Conference | June Barnes & Clive Dakin |
March 23, 2016 |
Can local history be “pointless”? | Des Hoar |
February 24, 2016 |
This England – part II | Colin Scott |
February 17, 2016 |
Researching House History | Vicky Manners |
February 10, 2016 |
Digital Mapping Project | Maurice Nicholson |
January 27, 2016 |
The History of Warden Abbey and its Vineyard | Margaret Roberts |
January 13, 2016 |
Stevington: The Natural History of a Bedfordshire Village | Members of Stevington Trust |
December 9, 2015 |
History of Postal Services in Sharnbrook | Bob Ricketts |
November 25, 2015 |
Ancient Life in the Biddenham Loop | Mike Luke |
November 11, 2015 |
Cold War Bunkers | David Oliver |
October 28, 2015 |
Visit to Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney | |
October 14, 2015 |
North Bedfordshire Villages in Pictures | Edward Bean |
September 30, 2015 |
Visit to Chicksands Military Intelligence Museum | |
September 16, 2015 |
The Poor and Sick in Bedfordshire | Nigel Lutt |
June 17, 2015 |
Visit to FlagFen | June Barnes |
May 13, 2015 |
Visit to Willington | June Barnes |
April 22, 2015 |
Visit to Jordan’s Mill | June Barnes |
March 25, 2015 |
Castles in Bedfordshire | James Scott Petre |
March 11, 2015 |
This England | Colin Scott |
February 25, 2015 |
John Howard | Barry Tapenden |
February 11, 2015 |
Paths to Crime | Pamela Birch |
January 28, 2015 |
Revisit to St Peter’s Church | Colin Scott |
January 14, 2015 |
What’s in CRT 130? | Des Hoar |
December 3, 2014 |
Anglo Saxon Feasting | Ann Hagen |
November 19, 2014 |
Convict Transportation | Ian Waller |
November 12, 2014 |
The Bedfordshire Regiment | Nigel Lutt |
October 22, 2014 |
The Parish Church – are you liable for maintenance? | Colin Scott |
October 11, 2014 |
Hemlock Morris Dance | Hemlock Morris Dance |
October 8, 2014 |
Social History in Photographs and their conservation | Helen Dawkins |
September 23, 2014 |
Visit to Warden Abbey Vineyard | Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity on Whitbread Estate |
September 10, 2014 |
Centenary of WW1 | David Wilson & Richard Oberman |
July 2, 2014 |
Cruise down Bedford River | June Barnes & David Fowler |
June 11, 2014 |
Walk around Turvey Part 2 | Alan Richardson |
May 14, 2014 |
Walk around Higham Ferrers | Richard Oberman |
March 26, 2014 |
Sharnbrook in World War II | Robert Whapples |
March 19, 2014 |
Sharnbrook’s Moated Earthwork | Carenza Lewis |
March 12, 2014 |
Visit to Mayor’s Parlour | June Barnes |
February 26, 2014 |
The history of Immunisation | Paul Davis |
February 12, 2014 |
Visit to Northampton Museum | Richard Handscomb |
January 29, 2014 |
Yet more Beats, Boots and Thieves | Des Hoar |
January 15, 2014 |
Fallen in the Cause of the Free | Andrew Rome |
December 5, 2013 |
Sharnbrook’s Moated Earthwork – Castle, Manor House or what? | Carenza Lewis |
December 4, 2013 |
Sharnbrook Images & Quiz | Des Hoar |
November 20, 2013 |
Up with the lark | Ian Waller |
November 6, 2013 |
What is a Parish? | David Bond |
October 23, 2013 |
Figures & Facts- What the Censuses can tell us about Sharnbrook | Des Hoar |
October 9, 2013 |
Visit to Panacea Museum | June Barnes |
September 25, 2013 |
Visit to Sharnbrook Mill Theatre | Peter & Erica Lester & Doug Pope |
September 11, 2013 |
The Chichelle Entertainment | David Wilson & Richard Oberman |
June 5, 2013 |
Visit to Southill Park & Paths to Crime Walk | June Barnes , James Collett-White & Charles Whitbread |
May 22, 2013 |
Visit to revamped Higgins Gallery & Museum | June Barnes and Museum guide |
April 24, 2013 |
Walk around Bletsoe | David Baker |
March 27, 2013 |
Bedfordshire Verse & Project Update | Frank Batt |
March 20, 2013 |
The Deadlands Project | Loyd Wix |
March 13, 2013 |
Visit to Sharnbrook Mill Theatre | Peter & Erica Lester |
February 27, 2013 |
A history of Turvey in pictures | Alan Richardson |
February 13, 2013 |
Visit to Kettering Museum | Richard Handscomb |
January 30, 2013 |
The Midland Railway in Sharnbrook area | Peter Butler |
January 16, 2013 |
The secret world of Bletchley Park and its local connections | Simon Greenish |
December 5, 2012 |
Images of Sharnbrook in early 1940’s | Hazel Dennison & Eileen Smith |
November 21, 2012 |
Visit to Bedford Heritage Library | Des Hoar |
November 7, 2012 |
St John’s – a local family history | James Collett-White |
October 24, 2012 |
Visit to HER | Vanessa Clarke |
October 13, 2012 |
In Quires and Places Where They Sing | Colin Scott & Bedford Gallery Quire |
October 10, 2012 |
Who Do You Think You Are? | Des Hoar |
September 26, 2012 |
Walk around Turvey | Alan Richardson |
September 12, 2012 |
Looking Back – Looking Foward | June Barnes |
June 9, 2012 |
BLHA Conference | Des Hoar & Martin Lawrence |
May 16, 2012 |
Visit to Knotting Church | Mr E Clarke & Gabriella Misuriello |
May 2, 2012 |
Sharnbrook Big Dig 2012 | June Barnes & Carenza Lewis |
March 21, 2012 |
Living Memories | Carmela Semeraro |
March 14, 2012 |
Visit to Bedford Heritage Library | Des Hoar and Barry Stephenson |
March 7, 2012 |
Visit to Mayor’s Parlour & HER | June Barnes & Vanessa Clarke |
February 22, 2012 |
Who Do We Think We Are? | Richard Handscomb & Des Hoar |
February 8, 2012 |
Shopping for a C19th Gentry Household | Lucy Bailey |
January 25, 2012 |
Visit to Wellingborough Museum | Richard Handscomb |
January 11, 2012 |
Yesterday’s Odell | Barbara Corley |
December 7, 2011 |
Progress on Research projects & Quiz | Des Hoar |
November 23, 2011 |
Visit to Heritage Library | Des Hoar and Barry Stephenson |
November 9, 2011 |
Visit to Elstow Moot Hall and Abbey | June Barnes and Abbey guide |
October 26, 2011 |
The Orlebars of Hinwick | James Collett-White |
October 12, 2011 |
Visit to Bedford HER | Vanessa Clarke |
September 28, 2011 |
Coronation Memories | June Barnes |
September 21, 2011 |
Behind the scenes at Time Team | Paul Blinkhorn |
September 14, 2011 |
Hundred Years of Park Lane Methodist Church | Eileen Smith |
April 20, 2011 |
Walk on Bedford Bunyan Tour | Andrew Rome |
April 6, 2011 |
Progress on Research projects | Des Hoar |
March 23, 2011 |
Visit to 78 Derngate, Northampton | June Barnes |
March 9, 2011 |
The Village Bobby | Des Hoar |
February 23, 2011 |
Alfred to Bunyan | David Fowler |
February 9, 2011 |
Visit to Bedford Heritage Library | Des Hoar and Barry Stephenson |
January 26, 2011 |
More Bygones and 78 Derngate | Ann Mayhew |
January 19, 2011 |
Digging up the Past in Sharnbrook Part 2 | Carenza Lewis |
January 12, 2011 |
Sharnbrook People | June Barnes |
December 8, 2010 |
Progress on Research projects | Des Hoar |
December 1, 2010 |
Researching Beds and Herts Regiment ancestry | Nigel Lutt |
November 24, 2010 |
The beginnings of State Education – How, What and Why? | Margaret Badley |
November 10, 2010 |
Visit to Thurleigh 306 Bombardment Group Museum | June Barnes |
October 27, 2010 |
Bring your Bygones | June Barnes |
October 13, 2010 |
Visit to Milton Keynes Museum | Richard Handscomb |
September 29, 2010 |
Village Crafts | Ian Waller |
September 15, 2010 |
Churchyard Detectives | Des Hoar |
March 24, 2010 |
Progress on Research projects | Des Hoar |
March 10, 2010 |
Visit to Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton | June Barnes |
February 24, 2010 |
Lacemaking in Bedfordshire | Eve Goldsmith |
February 17, 2010 |
Record Keeping for Family and Local Historians | Gerry Allen |
February 10, 2010 |
Visit to St Peter’s Church | Colin Scott, James Collett-White |
January 27, 2010 |
History of the Riverside Parish Part 2 | Ken Shrimpton |
January 13, 2010 |
The Pacey Papers | Judy Anderson |
December 2, 2009 |
Progress on Research projects | Des Hoar |
November 25, 2009 |
Bedford in World War II | David Fowler |
November 18, 2009 |
Walk around High Street | June Barnes |
November 4, 2009 |
Visit to St Peter’s Bell Tower and Bells | Pat Albon |
October 21, 2009 |
Workshop examing Old photographs | Helen Dawkins |
October 14, 2009 |
Using old photographs in historical research | Helen Dawkins |
October 7, 2009 |
Visit to Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney | June Barnes and Museum guide |
September 30, 2009 |
Royal Aircraft Establishment Bedford- history and legacy | Mike Dobson |
September 23, 2009 |
On and Off the Footplate | Bill Davies |
March 18, 2009 |
The Time Team Experience | LLoyd Wix |
March 11, 2009 |
Upstairs, Downstairs | Ian Waller |
March 4, 2009 |
Visit to British Schools Museum, Hitchin | Eileen Smith |
February 25, 2009 |
Walk in Church Lane | June Barnes |
February 11, 2009 |
Progress on research projects | Des Hoar |
January 28, 2009 |
Crime in English History: The Shocking Truth | Prof. Clive Emsley |
January 21, 2009 |
Digging up the Past in Sharnbrook | Carenza Lewis |
January 14, 2009 |
Discovering the history of a Riverside Parish | Ken Shrimpton |
December 3, 2008 |
Progress on Research Projects | Des Hoar |
November 19, 2008 |
Living in Sharnbrook | Jane Tusting |
November 12, 2008 |
History of Education and being a House Detective | Martin Deacon |
November 5, 2008 |
Visit to HER and County Archive | Stephen Coleman |
October 22, 2008 |
Manorial Worth – life Upstairs and Downstairs | Ian Waller |
October 15, 2008 |
The history of Thatching | Keith Quantrill |
October 8, 2008 |
Walk in Park Lane | June Barnes |
September 24, 2008 |
Looking back at Summer activities plus more on local farming | June Barnes, Dick Lay |
March 19, 2008 |
BLHA Projects | Stella Gibbs |
March 12, 2008 |
Colworth Archaeology | LLoyd Wix |
March 5, 2008 |
Local History sources for Sharnbrook | James Collett-White |
February 20, 2008 |
Walk around Coffle End | Eileen Smith, Doreen Greenaway |
January 30, 2008 |
Cinderellas of the Soil | Stuart Antrobus |
January 23, 2008 |
Progress on research projects | Des Hoar |
January 9, 2008 |
Victorian Shopping | Ian Waller |
November 28, 2007 |
Using Census data to research village history | Colin Watt |
November 14, 2007 |
Progress on Research Projects Part 2 | Colin Scott, Dick Ley |
October 31, 2007 |
Bread, Gruel and Dumplings – Workhouse Life | Ian Waller |
October 17, 2007 |
Progress on Research Projects Part 1 | Des Hoar |
October 3, 2007 |
Visit to Bedford Museum – Saxons exhibition | June Barnes |
September 19, 2007 |
Looking Back and Looking Forward | June Barnes |
June 7, 2007 |
Visit to Colworth Roman Villa site | LLoyd Wix |
April 19, 2007 |
Visit to County Archive | June Barnes |
January 21, 2007 |
Establishing research projects & walks around the village | Junes Barnes |
November 29, 2006 |
Visit to HER | Stephen Coleman |
November 22, 2006 |
Resources at HER | Stephen Coleman |
November 15, 2006 |
Village photographs | Colin Scott |
November 8, 2006 |
In Living Memory | Doreen Greenaway |
November 1, 2006 |
Sharnbrook House and the Gibbard family | Rachel Friend |
October 25, 2006 |
Resources at Bedford Central Library | June Barnes & Local History Dept |
October 18, 2006 |
1000 years at Stoke Mill | Theo Gibbs |
October 11, 2006 |
Research in Progress – Update to history of St Peter’s Church | Colin Scott |
October 4, 2006 |
Research in Progress – Street Names | Eileen Smith |
September 27, 2006 |
Introduction – what the Group might do | June Barnes |