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 30 of our talks:

2025

• • 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.