2025 talks

Historian and author Nathen Amin gave a talk to us in February 2025 on Henry VII and Richmond. The illustration of Richmond Palace, taken from a Richmond Society interpretation board on Richmond Green, is by local artist Caroline Church

Monday 13 January 2025
David Upton on Gordon Pask, cybernetician, inventor and polymath

Monday 14 February 2025
Nathen Amin on Henry VII and Richmond

Monday 14 March 2025
Richard Woolf on The building history of Ham into the 21st century

Monday 19 April 2025
Celia Holman on Poets and Princess, Naked Ladies and Rock Gods

Wednesday 23 April 2025
Paul Velluet on A celebration of Richmond’s 20th century architecture

Monday 19 May 2025
Our Annual General Meeting, followed by three short talks:

  • Simon Fowler on Merlin’s Cave: Richmond’s Georgian theme park
  • Mark Lucas on The fall of Richmond Palace
  • Jan Johnson on the Victorian engineer Henrietta Vansittart
Paul Velluet, the Society’s President
Dr Simon Targett, the Society’s Chair

Monday 8 September 2025 Paul Velluet amd Simon Targett on Richmond History – past, present and future marking the 50th anniversary of our founding as the Richmond Society’s Local History Section and our Society’s 40th anniversary as an organisation in its own right.