Wandsworth Historical Society

Lecture Programme for the next Year

After 2 years of Zoom our monthly talks returned to real meetings from April 2022.

You are welcome to come along to one of our talks free of charge before deciding whether you want to join the Society.

All our talks are held on the last Friday of the month at the Friends' Meeting House, 59 Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PT.

They begin at 8.00 pm and end at about 9.15 pm.

The Meeting House is opposite Wandsworth Town Hall, a short walk down from the Spread Eagle pub.

So far, the following talks have been arranged for the next year.

Date	Talk	Speaker
August 2022	No Meeting
30 September 2022	'The Star and Garter Home, Richmond'	Victoria McGrath (Museum of Richmond)
28 October 2022	"Archaeological human remains from the River Thames: perspectives from Barnes to Battersea"	Dr Nichola Arthur, Institute of Archaeology, University College
25 November 2022	a Members' Evening	Short talks by members
December 2022	No Meeting
27 January 2023	13th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: An archaeological talk	TBA
24 February 2022	"The Mercenary River". about how London struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water from the middle ages to the present day - a story of remarkable technological, scientific and organisational breakthroughs, but also of greed and complacency, high finance and low politics.	Nick Higham, journalist and author
31 March 2023	An archaeological talk	TBA
28 April 2023	A local history talk	TBA
26 May 2023	An archaeological talk	TBA
30 June 2023	A local history talk	TBA
28 July 2023	An archaeological talk	TBA

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