{"id":11605,"date":"2025-04-22T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=11605"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:16:21","slug":"2025-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/home\/nathen-amin-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nathen-Amin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11401\" style=\"width:655px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 13 January 2025<\/strong><br><strong>David Upton <\/strong>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/talk-by-david-upton-gordon-pask-cybernetician-inventor-and-polymath\/\">Gordon Pask, cybernetician, inventor and polymath<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 14 February 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Nathen Amin <\/strong>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/talk-by-nathen-amin-on-henry-vii\/\">Henry VII and Richmond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 14 March 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Richard Woolf <\/strong>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/talk-the-building-history-of-ham-into-the-21st-century\/\">The building history of Ham into the 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 19 April 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Celia Holman <\/strong>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/poets-and-princess-naked-ladies-and-rock-gods\/\">Poets and Princess, Naked Ladies and Rock Gods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday 23 April 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Paul Velluet <\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/talk-by-paul-velluet-a-celebration-of-richmonds-20th-century-architecture\/\">A celebration of Richmond\u2019s 20th century architecture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Simon Fowler on Merlin\u2019s Cave: Richmond\u2019s Georgian theme park<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mark Lucas on The fall of Richmond Palace<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan Johnson on the Victorian engineer Henrietta Vansittart<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 8 September 2025<\/strong><br><strong>Paul Velluet and Simon Targett<\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events\/richmond-history-past-present-and-future\/\">Richmond History \u2013 past, present and future<\/a><\/strong>, marking the 50th anniversary of our founding as the Richmond Society\u2019s Local History Section and our Society\u2019s 40th anniversary as an organisation in its own right. In addition,<strong> Simon Fowler<\/strong> introduced and showed two videos about the Society that have been produced by <strong>Victoria Weatherby and Norman Harvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 2025David Upton on Gordon Pask, cybernetician, inventor and polymath Monday 14 February 2025Nathen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12665,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11605\/revisions\/12665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}