Our website now has reports of these talks:

2020

• January: a report is in preparation on Paul Velluet’s talk on St Mary Magdalene’s 800th anniversary – aspects of the history and development of Richmond’s historic parish church
• February: there is no report  on Martin Stilwell’s talk on The Industrialisataion of Kew and North Richmond in the First World War, but much of what he said is covered in his article in Richmond History 41 (2020)
• March: Charles Pineles on The social history of Queen’s Road, Richmond
• April: Stephen Bartlett’s  talk on Five acres, one rood and four perches – The early history of Lawn Crescent has not yet taken place but we hope to reschedule it in 2021. Much of the subject matter is  covered in his article in Richmond History 41 (2020)

2019

• January: Stephen Bartlett on Royston House and the building of Victorian Kew
• February: Dr Steven Woodbridge on The League of Nations Union in Richmond
• March: Jill Lamb on the oral history project Ham is Where the Heart is
• April: Andrea Potts on Researching the history of St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Richmond and Dr Robert Wood on Vincenzo Lunardi’s ascent from Richmond in a hydrogen balloon
• October: Dr Simon Targett on Richmond and Mortlake’s part in the founding of America and the launching of the British Empire
• November: Dr Caroline Withall on The forgotten boys of the sea: Marine Society merchant sea apprentices, 1772-1873
• December: Susanne Groom on Kew Gardens’ lost buildings

2018

• February; Val Bott on The Greenings of Brentford End: Royal Gardeners
• March: Prof Michael Gaunt on Edmund Kean, Shakespearean actor and Richmond theatre manager
• April: Prof Bob Shoemaker on Tracing Convict Lives Using the Digital Panopticon
• May: Jack Andrews on Painting Plants with a Passion – the story behind the recent BBC documentary on the adventures of Marianne North
• October: Susanne Groom on the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the royal Hanoverians at Richmond and Kew
• November: John and Eunice Drewry on the Voluntary Aid Detachment
• December: Rebecca Arnott on the history of the Museum of Richmond: 30 years, people, objects and memories

2017

• January: Paul Davies on Crown Lands in Kew – the Public Record Office and Beyond
• February: Richard Holmes on Pubs and Breweries in Richmond
• March: Dr Steven Woodbridge on Richmond and the Right
• April: Sir David Williams on Ham’s Eccentric Princess, Marie d’Orléans
• October: Simon Fowler on Poverty and Philanthropy in Richmond

2016

• December: Jason Debney on How the Arcadian View from Richmond Hill Inspired the English Landscape Movement