Previous talks

To give an idea of the range of material we cover previous talks were –

Friday 28 February 2020 – ‘Amport Parish, Amport House and the Paulet Family’, Bill Gore

Friday 27 March 2020 – ‘The Rise and Fall of Henry Barnes – Horse Dealer’, David Snow

22 January 2021 – ‘Historical Ecology: How Studies of the Natural World can Provide Insights into Human History’, Ben Kite (Zoom)

26 February 2021 – ‘Grafﬁti in Salisbury Cathedral: The Walls that Talk’, Steve Dunn (former head guide at the cathedral) (Zoom)

26 March 2021 – ‘Policing Andover & District during WW2’, Clifford Williams (Zoom)

23 April 2021 – ‘Women in the Army in the First World War’, Dan Allen (Zoom)

21 May 2021 – ‘Rails around Andover: 180 years of North Hampshire Railway History’, Dave Allen (Zoom)

24 September 2021 – ‘From Cricket to Cookery: A Regimental Archive for All Occasions’, Heather Needham

22 October 2021 Dacre Lecture: ‘Gold from the time of Stonehenge’, David Dawson

10 December 2021 – Members Talks: ‘A Little More about Beech Hurst’, Erica Tinsley; ‘Even More Musical Notes – and others’, Phil Farlow

Friday 4 March 2022 – ‘The Cup that Cheers: Tea before Victoria’, Joy Pibworth

Friday 25 March 2022 – ‘The Old Lady and Hurstbourne Park: The Bank of England in Wartime’, Dr Alison Deveson, followed by the AGM

Friday 22 April 2022 – Dacre Lecture: ‘Poor Law Bastille: The Andover Workhouse Scandal Reviewed’, Professor Michael Wheeler

Friday 27 May 2022 – ‘The English Language in Hampshire’, Professor Chris Mulvey

Friday 24 June 2022 Visit to the Church of St Michael & All Angels, Knights Enham with Canon Jill Bentall

Friday 23 September 2022 – ‘A History of Bells and Bellringing’, Jane Tarrant

Friday 28 October 2022 – ‘The Queen in Hampshire’, David Rymill, Hampshire Archives

Friday 18 November 2022 – ‘Marmalade, Spuds and a Bag of Gold – Gift giving in Tudor Hampshire’ , Cheryl Butler

Friday 9 December 2022 – Members’ Talks: ‘Bygones’, Jill Bentall; ‘Musical Notes’, Phil Farlow

Friday 27 January 2023 – ‘Reading Abbey’, Joy Pibworth

17 February 2023 – ‘The Development of the Medieval Timber Framed House in Hampshire’, Bill Fergie

24 March 2023 – ‘Industrial Development in North Hampshire 1780-1914’, Derek Spruce

28 April 2023 – Dacre Lecture: ‘Kangaroos, Kiwis and Bustards: the archaeology of the Great War on Salisbury Plain and the benefits for veterans, Richard Osgood, Senior Archaeologist, Defence Infrastructure Organisation

26 May 2023 – ‘The History of Broadlands’, Phoebe Merrick

22 September 2023 – ‘Highclere Castle and its Archives’, David Rymill, Hampshire Archives

27 October 2023 – ‘Andover’s Archaeology Through Time’, David Hopkins, County Archaeologist, Hampshire County Council

24 November 2023 – ‘The Hamlet of Red Rice’, Dianne Rawlins, Head of Scholars, Farleigh School

6 December 2023 – Members’ talks: ‘Memories of School Days and a Bit of Local History’, Erica Tinsley; ‘Music Notes and Others’, Phil Farlow

26 January 2024 – ‘Excavation of a Saxo-Norman Execution Cemetery at Weyhill Road, Andover’, Sharon Clough, Senior Environmental Officer ‑ Human Bones, Cotswold Archaeology

23 February 2024 – ‘Revealing the History of a Hampshire Timber Framed House’, David Snow

22 March 2024 – ‘Captain Swing Visits Andover’, Edward Fennell

26 April 2024 – Dacre lecture: ‘Andover on Film’, Lydia Ackrell, Wessex Film and Sound Archive. For more details of its work in Andover, see Andover: An Overspill Story (wordpress.com)

24 May 2024 – ‘I Remember D-Day’, June Harris

28 June 2024 – Guided walk around Andover town centre

27 September 2024 – ‘Cholderton Lodge Gardens’, Sally Miller, Hampshire Gardens Trust

25 October 2024 – ‘The Bishop and the Viking – An Andover Encounter’, Andrew Hobley

15 November 2024 – ‘Enigma Unwrapped’, Alan Watson

6 December 2024 – Members’ talks: ‘A Catholic Martyr in Andover’, Andrew Hobley; ‘Why is Test Valley the Home of the Christmas Tree’, Jill Bentall

28 February 2025 – ‘Andover Town Development Before 1650’, Martin Coppen

28 March 2025 – ‘Growing up in Grateley’, Paul Ayres

25 April 2025 – Dacre Lecture: ‘The Royal Palace and Park of Clarendon, Wiltshire’, Dr Cindy Wood, University of Winchester

23 May 2025 – ‘Before Jam and Jerusalem: The Earliest Days of the WI Locally’, Erica Tinsley

27 June 2025 – Summer walk – Nether Wallop

26 September 2025 – ‘The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1920’, Dr Alex Armstrong

24 October 2025 – ‘One Place Study: A Tool for Exploring the Past’, Julie Muirhead

28 November 2025 – ‘Archaeological excavations at Picket Twenty, Andover: A Bronze Age funerary landscape’, Sharon Clough, Senior Specialist Consultant – Human Remains, Cotswold Archaeology

5 December 2025 – Members’ talks: ‘Where was the Battle of Cynwit?’ David Snow; ‘Memories of Andover Community Association’, June Harris; ‘Postal Services in the parish of St Mary Bourne’, Julie Muirhead