Violette Szabo Museum, Wormelow, Herefordshire

Meet at Conquest Theatre carpark – 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard, HR7 4LL

Violette Szabo was a secret agent working for the Special Operations Executive during World War II. Violette took on special missions behind enemy lines following the death of her French officer husband at the Battle of El Alamein and because of her bravery was awarded the George Cross (the first woman to receive the award) […]

Thomas Traherne, Herefordshire’s greatest writer? An Introduction. 

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

A talk by Richard Willmott, a retired headmaster of the Dixie Grammar School and Chairman of the Traherne Association. Thomas Traherne lived in Hereford as a boy during the sieges of the Civil War. After studying at Oxford, he became rector of Credenhill and an extraordinarily prolific writer and poet. Only a small amount of […]

Herefordshire Place-Names

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

A talk by David Parsons. In 2026 the English Place-Name Society will be publishing a new study of the place-names of the county, principally the work of the late Mr John Freeman. This talk will draw on that forthcoming volume to highlight the linguistic and cultural history that is illuminated by the names, tracing the […]

Society AGM

The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard

At the Falcon Hotel – Oak Room. Members will receive agenda and supporting documents by email prior to this.

Surviving a hijack

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

In 1986, Mike Thexton travelled to Pakistan to say goodbye to his brother, who died in the Karakoram Himalaya three years before. On the way home, his plane was hijacked at Karachi, and he was singled out as a British passport holder to be the next person to be shot. He tells the story of […]

Archive Motor Films

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

To be finalised, but may include some archive films on Land Rovers

What and when were the Iron Age hillforts of Herefordshire?

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

A talk by Dr Keith Ray – The literature on the Iron Age in Britain is replete with descriptions of the form and the excavation of hilltop or hillslope enclosures commonly known as ‘hillforts.’ Areas in – or close to – the upland areas of Britain sometimes have particularly dense distributions of these kinds of […]

Ocean Liners of the 1960S and 1970s

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

A talk by Anthony Lunn.  A nostalgic return to the days when passenger ships looked like ships and passengers had cabins not staterooms. Most of the images are of ships engaged on long distance voyages and not seven night cruises

The People of the Peasants’ Revolt

The Conquest Theatre 6 Tenbury Rd, Bromyard HR7 4LL, United Kingdom

A talk by Matt Lewis – In the summer of 1381, the first well documented popular rising in England shook the political foundations of a nation. A teenage king sought to deal with a populace pushed beyond what they could tolerate. What sparked the Peasants’ Revolt? Why is the name it has been given misleading? […]

Talks are held at the Conquest theatre in Bromyard unless otherwise specified – everyone is welcome; members free, guests £6.00.