16 January

  Heather Falvey "Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale's recipe book, c.1800"

The Dimsdales have been a well-known Hertfordshire family since the 1630s. Elizabeth married Thomas Dimsdale in 1779, becoming his third wife and thus Baroness Dimsdale. When she was in her late sixties or early seventies, she copied nearly 700 recipes and more than 80 household hints into a parchment-bound book.

20 February

  Justin Burgess "A fine and private place - graves and funerals"

20 March

  Julie Moore "Golf and the Common: the Hertfordshire experience 1890 to 1912"   

17 April

  Anne Rowe "Humphrey Repton in Hertfordshire"

 The talk will be preceded by the Society's Annual General Meeting.

15 May

  Andy Wiseman "History of policing in Hertfordshire"

 19 June

  Kate Harwood "O'Connorville: Hertfordshire's Chartist land colony 1847"

17 July

  Jon Mein "From pint pot to coffee pot: the Temperance Movement in 19th century St Albans"

 NO MEETING IN AUGUST

18 September 

  Alan Thomson "From dung heaps to designer clothes: shopping in Hertford in the mid-17th          century"

16 October

  Helen George "Spanish 'flu in Watford after the Great War, 1918 to 1922

21 November

  Members' evening

  An opportunity for members to share your own research interests in a 10-minute talk.

19 December

  Christmas party 

Our annual fish-and-chip supper, with wine and mince pies. Members are invited to bring along an object of historical interest and tell us all about it.