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Cannington Walkabout and Visit to Blackmore Manor
Gurney Manor Gurney St., CanningtonMeet at Gurney Street Manor for 10.30 to start walkabout examining the history of this ancient Royal Manor and Minster with its associated historic buildings. Lunch at members discretion, although […]
The Wyndham Hall Picture House: Land Girls
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomIt’s 1941 World War II continues to rage across Europe. The young men of England have been called to the front to fight. So, back home a new regiment is […]
Somerset Vernacular Buildings Research Group: James Quantock, 18th Century Polymath. Talk by Ed Lorch
Somerton Parish Rooms Market Square, SomertonEd Lorch will tell us the story of local man James Quantock, an 18th century polymath who specialized in what we today call surveying. How his intricate 100 page notebook was […]
SANHS: Memoirs of a Somerset MP
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomDavid Nicholson will talk about his life as an MP at Wyndham Hall
SANHS: Autumn Archaeology Symposium
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomA celebration of recent research in Somerset
Martock Local History Group: Excavations at Bower Hinton: Update by Greg Wales
Gospel Hall, Martock Church St, MartockGreg Wales, who gave us such an interesting talk in early 2024, will give us an update on his continued excavations of the continuous settlements at Bower Hinton since Iron […]
SANHS: Webinar – Kilve Oil Field, by Stephen Miles
WebinarThe retort is the only remaining artefact of a fraudulent 1920s project to extract oil from the cliffs at Kilve.
SANHS: The Geology of Ham Hill – Andy Gordon
Lunch at the Prince of Wales pub followed by a geological tour of Ham Hill with possible archaeological snippets.
The Wyndham Hall Picture House: The Tales of Hoffmann
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomFilmed adaptation of the Offenbach opera by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger. A romantic poet named ETA Hoffman (Robert Rounseville) reflects on three women he loved and lost in the […]
SANHS: Wildlife of the Avalon Marshes – Talk by Alison Uren
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomTalk by Alison Uren at Wyndham Hall
SANHS: THE NABOB, HIS MISTRESS, HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTERS: victims of English ambitions in India? – Talk by Mary Siraut
Wyndham Hall Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, United KingdomMary Siraut will speak about the extraordinary life of Charles Malet