Richmond Local History Society

Exploring the history of Richmond, Kew, Petersham and Ham

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        • No 44 (2024)
        • No 43 (2023)
        • No 42 (2021/22)
        • No 41 (2020)
        • No 40 (2019)
        • No 39 (2018)
        • No 38 (2017)
        • No 37 (2016)
        • No 36 (2015)
        • No 35 (2014)
        • No 34 (2013)
        • No 33 (2012)
        • No 32 (2011)
        • No 31 (2010)
        • No 30 (2009)
        • No 29 (2008)
        • No 28 (2007)
      • Books on Ham and Petersham
      • Books on Kew
      • Books on the Second World War
      • The Ferry from Ham to Twickenham
      • Kew at War 1939-1945
      • Old Palace Lane
      • Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond
      • Richmond’s Links with North America
      • Richmond Palace: its History and its Plan
      • Royal Gardeners at Kew – The Aitons
      • The Streets of Richmond and Kew
  • Resources
    • John Cloake: Forty Years of Richmond History
    • East Twickenham Belgian Refugees Project
    • Ebenezer Robbins, Kew’s centenarian ironmonger and Secretary of Duke Street Church
    • Ham: Walnut Tree Meadow Allotments
    • Inoculating the royals
    • Kew: St Anne’s Church
      • “Queen Anne’s Little Church”
      • Kew: The pew cushions in St Anne’s Church
    • Saving Kew Gardens
    • Peaky Blinders on Kew Green
    • Manor Road, Richmond: London’s first Council housing
    • Richard Francis Burton
    • Richmond’s almshouses
    • Richmond at War 1914-1918
      • Wings in Richmond
    • Richmond in the 1937 coronation
    • Kew at War 1939-1945
      • The Battle of Kew
    • Richmond at War 1939-1945
      • The Blitz spirit
      • Flight from the East End
      • Gibraltar on Thames
      • The postmen who never came back from the War
      • Bombs on Crown Terrace
      • Surviving the Blitz in the garden
      • V-E Day in Richmond, 8 May 1945
      • Winston Churchill in Richmond
      • Unique air raid shelter at Manor Road allotments
    • Richmond Park
      • Two incorrect myths concerning Richmond Park
      • The “Deer Leap” of Richmond Park
    • Richmond Old Burial Ground
    • Vineyard Passage Burial Ground
    • Richmond Poor Law Union records
    • Richmond Wells
    • Richmond’s Congregational Church in The Vineyard
      • Thomas Wilson 1764-1843
      • Pleasant Sunday afternoons in late Victorian Richmond – a glimpse at 1893-94
      • The preacher with red hair
      • A story of war and peace at The Vineyard Congregational Church, Richmond
      • The role of women in leadership at the Vineyard Church, Richmond
      • Revd Henry Beresford Martin 1808-1844: a remarkable young Victorian Minister
      • The Victorian burial plot of the Vineyard Chapel – from graveyard to garden
    • The Royal Star and Garter Home
    • The Selwyn Family and the development of Richmond
    • The servant problem
    • “Thresher” Duck on Richmond
    • Transport
      • Railway to nowhere
      • Transport: Richmond’s early horse-drawn trams and motor buses
    • The Vineyard, Richmond: An Online History
    • War memorials
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    • 2020 talks
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    • 2015 talks
    • 2014 talks
    • 2013 talks
    • Previous conferences
    • Previous fairs and fetes
    • Previous visits and coach trips
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RICHMOND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY explores the history of Richmond, Kew, Petersham and Ham. We organise talks, publish books and an annual journal, and organise visits to places of historic interest. Join us for free admission to our talks, an informative newsletter three times a year and discounts on most of our publications.

Forthcoming Events

11 Dec
Talk by Vicky McGrath on Kate Webster: a Richmond murderess. Followed by a party with drinks and nibbles
11 Dec 23
Richmond
08 Jan
Talk by Sarah Slater: ‘Kirtles, Corsets and Curtains': the costumes of Georgian England
8 Jan 24
Richmond
12 Feb
Talk by Hilary Thomson on The extraordinary history of 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew or, how I became a Modernist house detective
12 Feb 24
Richmond
11 Mar
Talk by John Price: Richmond heroes commemorated on the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman’s Park
11 Mar 24
Richmond
08 Apr
Talk by Dr Elizabeth Hallam-Smith on From Plantagenet Sheen to Tudor Richmond: royal passions, piety and power
8 Apr 24
Richmond
13 May
Our Annual General Meeting, and a talk by Dr Nick Barratt on The future of family, local and community history. Followed by a party with drinks and nibbles
13 May 24
Richmond
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