Our website now has reports of these talks:
2016
- December: Jason Debney on How the Arcadian View from Richmond Hill Inspired the English Landscape Movement
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
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
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