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Our next talk: Thursday, 5th June 2025 - AGM and Free Evening with Mini-talk, Shopping on Stamford's High Street before World War One.
Stamford Local History Society
TALKS
During our season, which runs from September to June, we arrange talks on a variety of topics usually related to Stamford and its surrounding districts.
Current Programme of Talks 2025/26
3 April 2025
The Blackfriars Estate (Stamford)
Keith Hansell
Growth, Dissolution and Development
1 May 2025
Stamford Bradcroft and the Ancient Meeting Place of Rutland
Dr David Roffe
5 June 2025
AGM - Free Evening
Chris Hunt
Mini-talk - Shopping on Stamford's High Street before World War One
4 September 2025
Fair Maid - Joan Holland, a Romantic Medieval Story
Philippa Massey
4 December 2025
Stamford East (Station) to Stamford Midland (Station) via Peterborough North
Chris Hunt
4 December 2025
Members Evening
Trish Auciello, Richard Asher
Mini talks - The Life & Loves of my Gt/Gt Grandfather and The Battle for 51 High Street - 1960's Stamford
4 December 2025
Polish Servicemen in Stamford in 1944
Suzanna Sawyer
5 February 2026
Celtic Paganism in the Stamford Area
Professor Andrew Breeze
5 March 2026
John Clare - The Helpston Poet
Rev Garry Alderson
2 April 2026
Excavations at Prior's Hall, Corby, Northants
Paddy Lambert
7 May 2026
The Luttrell Psalter
Professor Michelle Brown
Past Seasons' Talks
6 March 2025
Portable Antiquities Scheme
Dr Lisa Brundle
6 February 2025
Stamford JUSTHEAT Project
Dr Kathy Davies
An Update
5 December 2024
Mince Pies and Mini Talks
Free Evening
7 November 2024
The 1737 Stamford Parliamentary Elections
John Smith
3 October 2024
The Road to Losecoat Field
Dr Nicholas Bennett
5 September 2024
Mahomet Thomas Phillips
Prof Heather Hughes
6 June 2024
AGM and Free Talk
The Bacon Family Murders
2 May 2024
In Search of Two Brothers
Jonathan Smith
(Lincolnshire Regiment WWI)
4 April 2024
Must Farm Archaeology
Christopher Wakefield
7 March 2024
Mrs Cromwell's Cookbook
Stuart Orme
1 February 2024
Stamford Castle
Prof David Stocker
7 December 2023
Members and Guests Evening
2 November 2023
Castle Cement
Sinan Urhan
5 October 2023
Robert 'Troublesome' Brown
Rev Peter Stevenson
Father of Congregationalism
7 September 2023
The History of Horse Racing
Penny Rowley
and Stamford Racecourse
4 May 2023
The Villages of Kesteven
Rev David Bond
6 April 2023
Southorpe
Peter Jackson
Two Thousand Years of History
2 March 2023
Grey Friars or White Friars?
Linda Ball
In Search of Stamford's Friaries
2 February 2023
Collyweston Palace Update
Chris Close
3 November 2022
Law & Order in Stamford
Philippa Massey
Crime Punishment and Policing
6 October 2022
Private Life of Oliver Cromwell
Stuart Orme
15 September 2022
The Hommet Family
Prof. Daniel Power
Norman 12th Century Lords of Stamford
7 April 2022
Genealogy on the Internet
John Daffurn
using a real heir-hunter case study
3 March 2022
Broad Street Stamford
Chris Hunt
3 February 2022
More of Stamford's Victorian Underbelly
Claire Richardson
Henry Corby and the Murder of Miss Pulley
6 January 2022
Update on the Collyweston Palace Project
Chris Close
(Postponed COVID-19)
4 November 2021
Barnack Stone-
Brian Palmer
Rags to Riches
7 October 2021
Strumpets, Harlots & Prostitutes
Claire Richardson
Stamford's Victorian Underbelly
8 April 2021
Strumpets, Harlots and Prostitutes
Claire Richardson
(Postponed COVID-19)
3 February 2021
Prehistoric Settlement in the Welland Valley
Andrew Hatton
(Postponed COVID-19)
5 November 2020
A Tank from 'D-Day' to Bergen-Belsen
Gerry Wells
(Cancelled COVID-19)
1 October 2020
The Private Life of Oliver Cromwell
Stuart Orme
(Postponed COVID-19)
3 September 2020
The Courtier and the Queen
Malcolm Deacon
(Cancelled COVID-19)
9 April 2020
The Road to Losecoat Field
Dr Nicholas Bennett
(Cancelled COVID-19)
2 April 2020
The Village of Barnack
Brian Palmer
(Postponed COVID-19)
5 March 2020
Wothorpe Towers
Paul Griffin
6 February 2020
Local Archaeological Sites
Mike Clatworthy
Torpel & Downhall Manors
7 November 2019
The Eleanor Crosses
Keith Busfield
3 October 2019
Stamford's Courts and Yards
Philippa Massey
5 September 2019
Castle Construction, Conquest and Compensation
Dr David Roffe
Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture
4 April 2019
Beginners guide to investigating house histories
D Frearson & C Bancroft-Turner
7 March 2019
Where Old Stamfordians go
Dan Stamp
and what they get up to
7 February 2019
The Urban Churchyard
Rev David Bond
1 November 2018
Mercury Memories
Jonathon Smith
4 October 2018
Margaret Beaufort
Stuart Orme
Henry VIII's Grandmother
6 September 2018
Rev Arthur Galton
Dr Maggie Mckay
One time Vicar of Edenham
5 April 2018
Boudicca
Chris Carr
The Creation of Two Empires
15 February 2018
Stamford in Domesday Book
Dr David Roffe
16 November 2017
The Civil War in Peterboro
Don Chiswell
and latest archaeological discoveries
19 October 2017
Colleges & Collegiate Churches
Rev David Bond
(Lincs, Leics, Northants)
7 September 2017
Dr John Willis and his family
Chris Adams
13 April 2017
The Political John Clare
Roger Rowe
9 March 2017
The Roman Archaeology of the Nene Valley
Prof. Stephen Upex
9 February 2017
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Penny Rowley
24 November 2016
Thomas Hotchkin of Tixover (1774 - 1843)
Brian Palmer
20 October 2016
The Deepings Canal Project
Maggie Ashcroft
14 April 2016
Life at Norman Cross:
Stuart Orme
the World's First POW camp
11 February 2016
British Racing Motors
Jonathan Smith
22 October 2015
Stamford Fairs and Markets
Keith Hansell
17 September 2015
Flag Fen
Sarah Wilson
9 April 2015
Magna Carta
Dr Henry Summerson
5 March 2015
Landlords & Neighbours
John Hartley
Pubs posh and pokey in St Mary's
27 November 2014
WW1
Jeremy Banning
6 November 2014
Victorian Church Restoration in Stamford
John Smith
9 October 2014
Stamford Standoff
Matthew McCormack
Army versus Militia in Georgian England
11 September 2014
The Daughters of Durham
David Marcombe
St Leonard's Priory, Stamford, in context
13 March 2014
Researching Urban History
Alan Rogers
20 February 2014
Longthorpe Tower
Stuart Orme
14 January 2014
Stamford in 1913
Chris Hunt
an Illustrated History
20 November 2013
Recent Discoveries and Challenges
Jenny Young
in Stamford's Archaeology
17 October 2013
Stamford's Role in the Cold War
Richard Barry
26 June 2013
Contesting Stamford's Past
John Beckett
Local Historians in Conflict (17th to 19th centuries)
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