{"id":1999,"date":"2015-07-02T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1999"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:44:56","slug":"previous-talks-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/events-2\/talks\/previous-talks-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read about the talks we held in 2013<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read about the talks we held in 2014<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday 12 January 2015 <\/strong>Chris Sumner, former Chairman of the London Parks & Gardens Trust RICHMOND PARK AS A ROYAL HUNTING LANDSCAPE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"220px-Two_deer_at_Richmond_Park,_London\"<\/a>Chris Sumner<\/strong> is an architect and garden historian who formerly worked for the Greater London Council and for English Heritage. He is a trustee of the London Parks & Gardens Trust where he currently chairs the Planning & Conservation Working Group.<\/p>\n

Chris talked on Richmond Park, which is now designated as London\u2019s largest Site of Special Scientific Interest, a National Nature Reserve and a European Special Area of Conservation, and is included at grade I in the English Heritage Register of parks and gardens of special historic interest. The park was first enclosed \u2013 from around 1637 \u2013 as a hunting ground for Charles I, who last hunted there in 1647 as a prisoner of Parliament. It was also a favourite hunting ground for the early Hanoverians.<\/p>\n

Monday 9 February 2015\u00a0 <\/strong>Sabina Franklyn and Doug Pinchin\u00a0\u00a0 MARY E BRADDON (1835\u20131915), NOVELIST<\/em>
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Mary Braddon<\/p><\/div>\n

Of all Richmond\u2019s famous writers, Mary Braddon was the most popular, and the most prolific. Her work is still studied at universities, yet in Richmond she is almost totally forgotten, despite the mark she left on the town \u2013 Lichfield Gardens covers just a fraction of her own estate; Marchmont and Audley Roads are named after her best known books. This inattention was corrected by a dramatised reading, in which Sabina Franklyn <\/span><\/strong>and<\/span> Doug Pinchin\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> brought her back to life. It was based on Secrets and Rumours<\/em>, a play written by Doug and Richard Morris for the Orange Tree Theatre. (Sabina starred\u00a0 in the Orange Tree\u2019s School for Scheming <\/em>in 2014.) The Society had never before had the chance to present history in this way \u2013 and it was appropriate: Mary Braddon was a playwright, and this Richmond Local History Society event marked the centenary of her death.<\/p>\n

Mary Braddon, who died in Richmond on 4 February 1915 and is buried at Richmond Cemetery,\u00a0 is commemorated by a bronze wall memorial plaque at St Mary Magdalene’s Church.<\/p>\n

Read more about Mary Braddon.<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday 9 March 2015\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Alan Sherriff\u00a0 \u00a0THE IMPACT OF THE NATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVALS OF THE 1960s IN RICHMOND<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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How did the folk of Richmond in the early 1960s feel about the prospect of thousands of “beatniks” \"Nat<\/a>marching on the town? Was social order threatened? What was the eventual outcome? What exactly did the local press say about it all? And were you there?<\/p>\n

Alan Sherriff<\/strong> of Richmond Heritage Guides charts the passage of the controversial launch of the National Jazz Festival and its subsequent five-year residency in the Athletic Association Grounds near Old Deer Park. The winds of change – in music, fashion and other lifestyle choices – had started to blow into town.<\/p>\n

Monday 27 April 2015<\/strong> Ben Copsey, Peace Pledge Union\u00a0 TRIBUNALS AND TRIBULATIONS: THE RICHMOND EXPERIENCE OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Conscientious Objectors at Dartmoor Work Camp<\/p><\/div>\n

Ben Copsey<\/strong> is the Project Manager for the Peace Pledge Union’s “Objecting to War” project<\/a>, which focuses on the lives and experiences of Greater London’s 2,000 First World War Conscientious Objectors. Through research, public meetings, talks and interviews, the project aims to ensure the memories and stories of the men who refused to be forced to fight in the war are not forgotten during the centenary.<\/p>\n

With the introduction of conscription for the first time in British history in 1916, thousands of men were left with a difficult choice: abandon their religious, political or ethical convictions or face the harsh censure of both the public and the government by becoming Conscientious Objectors. This talk will examine some of the reasons and motivations behind Conscientious Objection as well as taking a look at the momentous consequences this choice had for many Richmond men.<\/p>\n

Monday 18 May 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel Hearsum and Dr Robert Wood THE HEARSUM COLLECTION IN RICHMOND PARK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Hearsum Collection<\/a>, a charity based at Pembroke Lodge, collects and preserves heritage http:\/\/pharmacy-no-rx.net<\/a> material relating to Richmond Park. Daniel Hearsum<\/strong> and Dr Robert Wood<\/strong>\u00a0 spoke about the Collection and its history and its new Heritage Lottery Funded-project Deer in the City<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Hearsum and the Deer in the City project<\/p><\/div>\n

An exhibition showing how the deer’s presence has shaped the park over the last four centuries will be at Pembroke Lodge from July 2015 to January 2016 and will also be published online.<\/p>\n

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Our thanks to Mary Pollard for taking the photos.<\/p>\n

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Back row: Christopher Hodges, Simon Fowler (author) and Joan Rundle.\u00a0\u00a0 Front row: Liz Smith, Cat Lamin, Anne Hardwick, Michael Daly, Juliet Daly. Photograph by Alice Weleminsky-Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

12 October 2015<\/strong> Kew-based amateur theatre group Q2 Players<\/a><\/strong> brought to life some of local residents’ experiences <\/a>of Richmond <\/a>during the Second World War<\/a>. They gave a dramatised reading, based on eyewitness accounts from Simon Fowler’s new book RICHMOND AT WAR 1939-1945. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

You can now listen to a podcast of the event. Find out more<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and listen to a podcast of the event.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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9 November 2015 <\/strong>Paul Velluet\u00a0 THE 600th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE SHENE CHARTERHOUSE<\/strong><\/em>, Richmond’s Carthusian monastery<\/p>\n

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Sheen Charterhouse from the west, c. 1558\u201362. Part of a sketch of Richmond Palace by the Flemish artist Anton van den Wyngaerde (1525 – 1571)<\/p><\/div>\n

That King Henry V founded and endowed a large-scale monastery for Carthusian monks on land north west of his palace at Shene is often forgotten \u2013 its site now forms part of the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Course in Richmond’s Old Deer Park.<\/p>\n

In this, the 600th anniversary year of the building of the Charterhouse at Shene, Paul Velluet focused on the planning, design and operation of the Charterhouse in relation to other Carthusian houses in England. He also referred to the development of the original site through to the present.<\/p>\n

Paul is an architect, local historian and a former Chairman of the Richmond Society who continues to lead its highly successful annual summer season of Heritage Walks. He last spoke to our Society on “The Old Deer Park \u2013 past present and future” in 2013, and we were delighted that he agreed to return to tell us about this significant building.<\/p>\n

14 December 2015<\/strong>\u00a0 Philip Soar on ASGILL HOUSE’s LINK WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/em>, Johanna Coombes on Col. HENRY WASHINGTON AND RICHMOND PALACE<\/em> <\/strong>and Paul Velluet on THE RICHMOND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY’s 30th ANNIVERSARY<\/em>
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