Talks are held at the Conquest theatre in Bromyard unless otherwise specified – everyone is welcome; members free (a booking password will be emailed prior to the event), guests £7.00 unless otherwise stated on event. It would be helpful if you can pre-book before the event via this link. This saves queuing at the box office before the start of the talk. Even though there is no charge for members, a complete list of those attending is required for fire safety reasons.
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 […]
A talk by Dr David Parsons, Director of the Survey of English Place-Names, and Reader in the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 £7.00 unless otherwise stated on event. It would be helpful if you can pre-book before the event via this link. This saves queuing at the box office before the start of the talk. Even though there is no charge for members, a complete list of those attending is required for fire safety reasons.