150 people attended Nathen Amin’s February 2005 talk to us on Henry VII and Richmond in person and there were 50 log-ins via Zoom: a very impressive turnout!

You can watch a recording of Nathen’s talk on our YouTube channel, which now has video recordings of more than thirty of our talks. It also has a video by Victoria Weatherby and Norman Harvey about Richmond and Kew in the Second World War and another in which attendees at our May 2025 AGM and talks tell us what they think about our events.

2025

• Victoria Weatherby and Norman Harvey, a video commissioned by Simon Fowler and shown by him at our talks on 9 September: What do you think of these events? Watch the video
• Simon Targett on 9 September 2025: The history of Richmond History, the RLHS journal. Watch the video
• Paul Velluet on 9 September 2025: The Richmond Local History Society’s 40th anniversary and its 50-year history. Watch the video
• Jan Johnson on 19 May 2025: The Victorian engineer Henrietta Vansittart. Watch the video
• Simon Fowler on 19 May 2025: Merlin’s Cave. Watch the video
• Mark Lucas on 19 May 2025: The fall of Richmond Palace. Watch the video
• Paul Velluet on 23 April 2025: A celebration of Richmond’s 20th century architecture. Watch the video
• Celia Holman on 19 April 2025: Poets and Princess, Naked Ladies and Rock Gods. Watch the video
• Richard Woolf on 10 March 2025: The building history of Ham into the 21st century. Watch the video
• Nathen Amin on 10 February 2025: Henry VII and Richmond. Watch the video
• David Upton on 13 January 2025: Gordon Pask, cybernetician, inventor and polymath. Watch the video

2024
A video recording of Juliet Ames-Lewis‘s talk to our Society in December 2024 on Almshouses of Richmond is, unfortunately, not available. However, Juliet gave a very similar presentation to The Richmond Society on 27 March 2025. Watch the video

• Charles Leon on 11 November 2024: Sketches of Richmond.  Watch the video
• Nick Barratt on 13 May 2024: Family and local history in the digital age. Watch the video
• Elizabeth Hallam Smith on 8 April 2024: From Plantagenet Sheen to Tudor Richmond: royal passions, piety and power. Watch the video
• Hilary Thomson on 12 February 2024: The extraordinary history of 21 Ennerdale Road, Kew; or, How I became a Modernist house detective. Watch the video

2023

• Vicky McGrath on 11 December 2023:  Kate Webster: a Richmond murderess.  Watch the video
• Stephen Bartlett on 13 November 2023: The Priory Park Estate in Kew. When the developers moved in… . Watch the video
• Simon Targett on 9 October 2023: Petersham adventurer George Vancouver. Watch the video
• Nic Madge on 11 September 2023:  Death in the Thames: the tragic story of five members of one Richmond family. Watch the video
• Martin Stilwell on 22 May 2023: Housing the Workers – the birth of Council housing in London. Watch the video
• Gordon Elsden on 13 March 2023: The royal medieval manor of Ham. Watch the video
• Andrew Humphreys on 13 February 2023: Raving upon Thames: Richmond’s music scene in the 1960s. Watch the video

2022

• Nick Higham on 12 December 2022: Private Greed, Public Good, A History of London’s Water. Watch the video
• Sandra Pullen on 14 November 2022: The history of Sudbrook Park, Petersham. Watch the video
• Shirley Newton and Shirley Clark on 11 April 2022: Kew through its sculpture. Watch the video
• Paul Miller and Laura Irwin on 14 March 2022: 50 years of the Orange Tree Theatre. Watch the video
• Andrew George on 14 February 2025: The Earl, his lover, their temple: The story of Black Jack Needham. Watch the video
• Jonathan Crofts on 17 January 2022: Meadows, Mansions and Munitions – stories and lives of Cambridge Park. Watch the video

2021

• George Goodwin on 13 December 2021:  Christmas traditions, with reference to Richmond and Kew. Watch the video
• Simon Targett on 8 November 2021: Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first Prime Minister, and his connections with Richmond. Watch the video
• Paul Velluet on 11 October 2021: Arts and Crafts Richmond: Architecture and design in the early years of the twentieth century. Watch the video
• Judy Weleminsky on 19 April 2021: Tony Rampton, Petersham’s pioneering philanthropist. Watch the video
• Stephen Bartlett on 8 March 2021: Five acres, one rood and four perches: the early history of Lawn Crescent. Watch the video

You can listen to some of our 2015-16 talks on our Soundcloud page.

Our website’s Archive section has written reports on many of our talks from 2016 to 2023.